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Shaking Up the Dinosaur Family Tree (nytimes.com)
37 points by jacobheric 3380 days ago
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jacobheric 3380 days ago
Abstract: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v543/n7646/full/nature2...

This looks to be the software used to analyze the data and suggest the new tree: http://www.lillo.org.ar/phylogeny/tnt/

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ufo 3380 days ago
Darren Naish has a great blog post about this news:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/ornith...

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ovulator 3380 days ago
I always thought the entire classification of dinosaurs by one feature back when we had very little data about dinosaurs at all was kind of odd. I'm glad it is being revisited.
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singularity2001 3380 days ago
According to the diagram all dinosaur branches died out before the cretaceous period. What's with that?
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ufo 3380 days ago
It isn't an exhaustive list of all the dinosaur branches.
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