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Maniraptora ("Seizing Hands"): Birds and their Closest Relatives
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/saurischia/maniraptora.html
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This site describes the clade Maniraptora (which is defined as containing all dinosaurs closer to birds than to ornithomimids). This is the group of theropod dinosaurs from which many paleontologists believe birds were derived some 150 or so million years ago. The site explains that according to phylogenetic taxonomy, birds are by definition maniraptorans, and the other maniraptorans are their closest relatives. An explanation is given as to why there is difficulty with this classification and weblinks explore each of the major groups of Maniraptora.
Intended for grade levels:
  • High (9-12)
  • College (13-14)
  • College (15-16)
Type of resource:
  • Text:
    • Ref. material
Subject:
  • Biology
  • Geological Sciences:
    • Paleontology
Technical requirements:
No specific technical requirements, just a browser required
Cost / Copyright:
No cost
Copyright 1994-2002 by the Regents of the University of California, all rights reserved. All materials appearing on the UCMP Web Servers may not be reproduced or stored in a retrieval system without prior written permission of the publisher and in no case for profit.
DLESE Catalog ID: DLESE-000-000-004-956
Educational standards:
  • National Science Education Standards (NSES):
    • 9-12:
      • Unifying concepts and processes:
        • Evidence, models, and explanation
        • Evolution and equilibrium
        • Form and function
        • Systems, order, and organization
      • A - Science as inquiry:
        • Understandings about scientific inquiry
      • C - Life science:
        • Biological evolution
      • G - History and nature of science:
        • Nature of scientific knowledge
Resource contact / Creator / Publisher:
Publisher: University of California Museum of Paleontology