Shaking Up the Dinosaur Family Tree

Shaking Up the Dinosaur Family Tree(nytimes.com)

37 points by jacobheric 9 years ago | 5 comments

jacobheric 9 years ago |

Abstract: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v543/n7646/full/nature2...

This looks to be the software used to analyze the data and suggest the new tree: http://www.lillo.org.ar/phylogeny/tnt/

ufo 9 years ago |

Darren Naish has a great blog post about this news:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/ornith...

ovulator 9 years ago |

I always thought the entire classification of dinosaurs by one feature back when we had very little data about dinosaurs at all was kind of odd. I'm glad it is being revisited.

singularity2001 9 years ago |

According to the diagram all dinosaur branches died out before the cretaceous period. What's with that?

ufo 9 years ago | |

It isn't an exhaustive list of all the dinosaur branches.