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The Birds that Lived with Other Dinosaurs – Part 2
October 8, 2020 @ 7:00 pm-8:00 pm
This talk is a continuation of one that I gave at a BHAS chapter meeting a few years ago. (No worries if you didn’t see the last one: I promise that you won’t get lost.) Its focus is on the birds that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, the age of dinosaurs. Birds – true birds, but significantly different from today’s species – first appeared about 160 million years ago and they co-existed with non-avian dinosaurs for almost 100 million years. We will discuss the features that characterized the very first birds and talk about the three main types of birds that dominated the landscape in the latter half of the dinosaur era. I will try to give you a sense of the diversity of early birds, and the breadth of the ecological niches they filled. Finally, we will talk about which modern, extant orders of birds were alive back then, walking alongside other dinosaurs.
Kim was a professor of psychology for almost 30 years. Before she switched fields so as to better study behavioral evolution, she earned a M.A. in evolutionary biology. Paleontology has been one of her avocations since she was a child. Kim has previously spoken at membership meetings on the birds of New Zealand and on waterfowl.
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