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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the renowned paleontologist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a sweeping evolutionary history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to the 10,000+ extraordinary species alive today.
Tens of billions of birds share the planet with us, an astonishingly diverse…
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2 authors picked The Story of Birds as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A fantastic read that places birds properly in their dinosaur origins. Author is there with you and the discoveries of birds through the millennia. Great examples. A good introduction to thinking about the long history of life on Earth: geological time and all the evolutionary changes that have happened, particularly with birds.
As someone fascinated with birds— especially those I’ve seen all across Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Europe— The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present traces our feathered friends through fossils, feather analysis, and even time-lapse images taken through the eggshell before they even hatch.
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