… bird diversity, we found that the main lineages of birds first … The KPg catastrophe had a
limited impact on avian evolution … by quartet distances from the highest to the lowest and then …

… of crown bird origins deep in the Early Cretaceous, … diversification where crown Neornithes,
Neognathae and Galloanserae all originate in the Late Cretaceous, with the age of the avian …

… avian Bauplan that led eventually to their global radiation. This early phylogenetic diversity is
… destruction of North China Craton during the Early Cretaceous, an event that underpins the …

… Here, I describe a Late Cretaceous bird from North America … extinction and the subsequent
origins of living bird diversity. … avian theropods and the earliest representatives of the extant …

… non-avian dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous has been … The scope of impact of the new
Early Cretaceous discoveries … their dramatic rise in diversity earlier in the Late Cretaceous, …

… of the morphology and ecology of the key avian lineage … large olfactory bulbs in comparison
to other known stem birds, … being the earliest diverging Cretaceous stem bird lineages, …

… other herbivorous birds, including an extant avian folivore, the hoatzin. … One impact in the
change in avialan diet from its predatory … plant diversity within the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota. …

… Present-day Australia hosts a remarkable diversity of birds, with their … The wider implications
of a diverse Early Cretaceous … , avian trace fossils in polar environments of Early Cretaceous …

… , spanning from the Early Cretaceous to Paleogene. These … first glimpse into the
paleoneuroanatomy of this Cretaceous … levels contain a large amount of new avian fossil remains, …

… initiation of diversification in the middle–Late Cretaceous, we … the Early–Late Cretaceous
boundary, rather than the earliest … The profound effects of ecological diversification among …