Fossil Hunters

The Birds

1 How did birds originate?

2 How are birds adapted to flight, and could Archaeopteryx fly?

3 Was Archaeopteryx really the first bird?

4 What do the new Cretaceous birds from China tell us?

5 Did the KT event hit birds hard?

6 What is the fossil and molecular evidence about the origin of modern birds?

6 What are the relationships of the major modern bird groups - and why has it proved so hard to work this out?

7 Did birds eat horses?