Dr. Jingmai O'Connor - THE EVOLUTION OF DINOSAURIAN FLIGHT &THE RISE OF BIRDS 

There simply isn't anyone better at communicating paleontological information quickly and well, with enough specific jargon to avoid circumlocutions that take too long to communicate, but not so much that you feel excluded without a master's degree. Of course her own field of expertise is fantastically exciting, but I honestly wish that every speaker could be as skilled as Dr. O'Connor OR that O'Connor was expert in literally everything so that we could have similarly clear, excellent, and exciting lectures on ALL THE ANIMALS. If you read the comments before watching videos to try to assess whether or not it's worth your time, you will never find a more worthwhile paleontological lecture than those of O'Connor -- very much including this one.

This is the kind of material you get when you take a highly intelligent mind, train it and place it amongst the primary data of a subject. Information and comment are - metaphorically - POURING out of her! I feel like I've been standing on a headland during a storm!! I don't want to dishonour this fine scientist by making some crass comment along the lines that she is in danger of replacing Elastigirl as my celebrity crush, so I WON'T!! Amazing lecture, need to watch it again .... Respect!!

seeing channels like these be recommended, makes me EXTREMELY happy

Isn’t Jingmai awesome at teaching us the wonderful world of avian paleontology?

This was a terrific talk. I was a brand-new Ph.D. n 1991, continuing my earlier graduate work on what became "evolutionary developmental biology", but I was captivated by the explosion of feathered dinosaurs that began pouring out of China. And this was really coming right on the heels of people getting used to the basic idea of endothermic dinosaurs. In retirement, I'm still excited about the stunning developments in dinosaur paleontology. This talk was jammed full of important and fascinating information And I find the scansoriopteryds bizarrely and marvelously fascinating, even if they were obviously a dead end.

Enjoyed this learned a lot thanks for sharing!

Almost turned it off because of the beginning sound quality. Glad I stuck it out. Very interesting talk.

Excellent lecture! Thank you!

You're a good speaker, lady! Articulate and fast. I hate speakers that talk slowly. It's infuriating when the listener is able to begin predicting the next word, sentence, entire thought of a host.

Very interesting lecture! Regards from Argentina

Thank you for this brilliant and extremely informative talk!

Amazing, what a fantastic lecture!

Thank you for sharing this video.

WOW AMAZINE VIDEO !!!

Very unique lecture. Learned a lot

When thinking about pollinators, we always think of bugs and insects. But, birds have a large roll to play in crosspollinating. I noticed that flight in birds and the rise of angiosperms seemed to evolve around the same time. Do you think birds had a larger roll in the evolution of angiosperms than we give them credit for?

A lot of new stuff in this one!

These sites I go to for entertainment have a lot more videos then I am being offered. These people working for you shouldn't be working for public entertainment.

You want to know how and when birds developed? Genesis 1:20.

I learnt at primary school when I was eleven in 1965 that archeopteryx was the first bird and that birds come from dinosaurs so where does this modern myth come from that not until after the 1990s was it accepted. it was from a BBC radio programme for schools called How Things Began that I learned it and I still have the course book from the BBC

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"Birds are the only reptiles..." Goodbye

Also forgot to say croccy joe… are you certain that the stick your boxer dogs jumped over was definitely a saddleworth python and not your sister Caroline

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Yi qi and Ambopteryx have been misinterpreted. The new bone arising from the wrist is simply a displaced antebrachial bone. So, no bat wing. Details here: pterosaurheresies.wordpress.com/2019/05/09/like-yi-qi-the-new-ambopteryx-does-not-have-bat-wings/

Adding taxa, in this case employing all 13 Archaeopteryx specimens as separate taxa, would clarify basal bird issues as shown here: reptileevolution.com/reptile-tree.htm

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