Birds are dinosaurs: Simple answer to a complex problem

Auk

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1187-1201

  Feduccia, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; DINOSAURIA;

EID: 0036823916     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4090252     Document Type: Note

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