Review: Great Transitions: The Origin of Birds

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Book Review| February 01 2016 Review: Great Transitions: The Origin of Birds Great Transitions: The Origin of Birds (http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/great-transitions-origin-birds; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2015; ~19 minutes) Jeffrey D. Sack Jeffrey D. Sack 1Science content writer and consultant cnidaria@comcast.net Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The American Biology Teacher (2016) 78 (2): 176. https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2016.78.2.176 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jeffrey D. Sack; Review: Great Transitions: The Origin of Birds. The American Biology Teacher 1 February 2016; 78 (2): 176. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2016.78.2.176 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe American Biology Teacher Search Have dinosaurs gone extinct? Present this question to students and you will most likely field responses in the positive. However, viewing HHMI BioInteractive's new video entitled The Origin of Birds may change students’ perspective. This short film is one of the latest in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's series about the “Great Transitions” of life. Fitting nicely in between films on the Origin of Tetrapods and the Origin of Humans, it takes the viewer through several million years of bird evolution. The Origin of Birds is narrated by paleontologist Julia Clark from the University of Texas at Austin. She takes the viewer to archeological digs where bird fossils have been discovered and explains how Charles Darwin was one of the first to describe the relationships between birds and ancient reptiles. Darwin, however, lacked the most important part of evidence present today – fossils. Since the discovery of Archaeopteryx,... You do not currently have access to this content.