Monthly Meetings

WOS Monthly Meeting December 5, 2022

Kim Adelson on “The Origins of Modern Bird Orders”

True birds have existed for roughly 150 million years, since the middle of the Age of Dinosaurs. These birds, however, were very different from modern birds and most were not closely related to the birds that populate the world today. The question that this talk tries to answer is this: when did familiar, recognizably modern birds appear? Several modern bird orders co-existed with dinosaurs; some did not evolve until 25 or more million years after they perished (or about 40 million years ago). So, the question we will pose is not “which came first, the chicken or the egg?” but “which came first, the chicken or the songbird” or “the penguin or the raptor”?

Kim has had a passionate interest in paleontology since childhood and holds a Master’s Degree in Evolutionary Biology. She has given two previous presentations to WOS – “The Dinosaurs Amongst Us” and “The Birds Who Lived with (Other) Dinosaurs”, available at WOS’ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC657f_RhriAUIwS_P1m5_nQ.

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