Roger Benson
My expertise is focused on Mesozoic and Late Palaeozoic groups including dinosaurs and other reptiles. My research group has addressed fundamental questions on the deep time evolutionary history of tetrapods more widely, including mammals, birds, crocodylians, turtles, lizards and their ancestors. It also finds links between the past and the present, using large datasets of extant species anatomy to test hypotheses of the ecology of extinct species such as dinosaurs.
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Fossils and Feathers: Rethinking What We Know About Dinosaurs
Tim and Syma talk to dinosaur expert, Roger Benson, from the American Museum of Natural History. They learn why there were no small dinosaurs, how the animals lived th...
