The study of dinosaurs has been through a revolution in recent decades. The story began half a century ago, when Robert McNeill Alexander, a professor of zoology at the University of Leeds, showed how ...

Ostrom’s paper was published in the journal Nature in 1973, and it spurred a revolution in our understanding of dinosaurs and birds. Ostrom wasn’t the first to suggest that birds evolved from ...

vpalmain copy 39088019137686 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has changed from natural history to a true scientific ...

Artist’s impression of a T. rex chasing a Velociraptor: the calculation of dinosaur running speeds in 1976 marked a revolution in palaeoscience. Esteban De Armas/Alamy The study of dinosaurs has been ...