Cretaceous Birds

[bonebug@xxxxxxxxxxx (Joe Small)]

The June issue of Scientific American has the article, "Flying in the Face 
of Tradition" - "Avian evolution may have been anything but gradual".

Christina Stock writes about a reexamination of bird/dinosaur relations and 
mentions Alan Chiappe's forthcoming book on the subject.  Excellent!

Similarly, yet somewhat contradictory, Luis Chappe writes "A Diversity of 
Early Birds" in the latest Natural History.

A colleague and I recently returned from the Campanian age Judith River 
Formation with a small, partial, proximal end of an avian(?) humerus.  Can 
anyone help us get this rare fossil to the attention of either of the two 
aforementioned researchers or someone else involved in avian evolutionary 
studies?

Please reply off-line if you wish.
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