Shaking Up the Dinosaur Family Tree
nytimes.com
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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/
Darren Naish has a great blog post about this news:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/ornith...
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.
According to the diagram all dinosaur branches died out before the cretaceous period. What's with that?
It isn't an exhaustive list of all the dinosaur branches.