Mr. Baron is a graduate student and his rewriting of the dinosaur family tree is a project to attain his Ph.D. The new family tree of dinosaurs, published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, is quite unlike the old. Mr. Baron says this name should be revived, with the two main branches of the new family tree being the Ornithoscelida and the Saurischia. Given that such a sudden shift in the dinosaur family tree might even be possible, people could wonder if dinosaur experts know what they’re doing, he said. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe proposed new family tree of dinosaurs has a lot of statistical support, Dr. Norman said.

Source: New York Times March 22, 2017 18:00 UTC