What makes the feather soar
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 - 10:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Dinosaurs may have gone extinct some 66 million years ago, but that's hardly the end of their story. One group of their modern-day progeny, the class Avia—namely, birds—is a spectacular evolutionary success story. With more than 10,000 extant species, birds occupy every manner of ecological habitat worldwide.