Dead Bird Nerd alert! WTTW News sat down with paleornithologist Jingmai O’Connor and talked about dinosaurs, birds, the Chicago Archaeopteryx, evolution and why studying fossil birds is more important now than ever.
O’Connor is associate curator of fossil reptiles at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History.
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