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  • Kevin Padian applauds a book on the planet’s role in our biological and cultural development.

    • Kevin Padian
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 565, P: 425-426

  • As the 200th year since the great naturalist's birth begins, Kevin Padian looks forward to a season of celebration by outlining how Darwin's ideas changed scientific thinking.

    • Kevin Padian
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature
    Volume: 451, P: 632-634

  • Kevin Padian assesses a study on how animals came to fly, wade, creep and glide.

    • Kevin Padian
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 530, P: 416-417

  • Dinosaur relatives called pterosaurs are the earliest known flying vertebrates. The branch of the evolutionary tree from which pterosaurs evolved has been unclear, but new fossil discoveries offer a solution to the mystery.

    • Kevin Padian
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 588, P: 400-401

  • Plunge into a profusion of brilliant summer reads suggested by regular reviewers and editors, far away from the lab and lecture hall.

    • Nathaniel Comfort
    • Kevin Padian
    • Sara Abdulla
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 523, P: 528-530

  • Kevin Padian weighs up a life of a great science popularizer who resisted Darwinism.

    • Kevin Padian
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 493, P: 607

  • Kevin Padian hails a stunning, provocative book probing evolutionary mechanisms.

    • Kevin Padian
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 548, P: 156-157

  • Last year's Dover trial resulted in intelligent design being removed from the science curriculum.

    • Kevin Padian
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 448, P: 253-254

  • Our understanding of the origin of birds took a major step forward in 1998, thanks to the reported discovery of a remarkable fossil that unveiled the existence of feathered dinosaurs. Fossil publications that year caused a sensation.

    • Kevin Padian
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 613, P: 251-252

  • Ichthyornis dispar is a key extinct bird species from when birds were shedding characteristics of their dinosaur ancestors and evolving their current features. A reconstructed skull of I. dispar now illuminates this transition.

    • Kevin Padian
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 557, P: 36-37

  • A newly discovered 66.7-million-year-old fossil bird excavated in Belgium provides us with the best evidence so far for understanding when the living groups of birds first evolved and began to diverge.

    • Kevin Padian
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 579, P: 351-352

  • Charles Darwin may have had the science, but Richard Owen could write a lethal letter.

    • Kevin Padian
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 412, P: 123-124

  • The standard dinosaur evolutionary tree has two key branches: the 'bird-hipped' Ornithischia and the 'reptile-hipped' Saurischia. A revised tree challenges many ideas about the relationships between dinosaur groups. See Article p.501

    • Kevin Padian
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 543, P: 494-495

  • For a century, scientists pondered whether bird flight evolved by animals gliding down from trees or by creatures running and flapping from the ground up. A landmark 1974 paper reset the debate to focus on the evolution of the flight stroke instead.

    • Kevin Padian
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 627, P: 738-740

  • A new feathered dinosaur from China, belonging to an obscure and strange carnivorous group, bears a seemingly bony wrist structure that may have had a role in flight. See Letter p.70

    • Kevin Padian
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 521, P: 40-41

  • Because mammals have such high metabolic rates, it has long been thought that their growth is invulnerable to seasonal variation. But their bones turn out to contain annual lines, just as those of cold-blooded animals do. See Letter p.358

    • Kevin Padian
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 487, P: 310-311

    • Kevin Padian
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 408, P: 519-520

  • A feud between two palaeontologists sheds light on late-Victorian journalism.

    • Kevin Padian
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 405, P: 121-122

  • A three-dimensional record of dinosaur feet and movement comes from 200-million-year-old footprints made in wet mud. Comparisons of these prints with the tracks made by living birds clear up some of the mysteries about dinosaur toes and the tracks that they left.

    • Kevin Padian
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 399, P: 103-104

  • Birds were once thought to have a large number of features exclusive to the group. One by one those features have also been identified in fossils of certain theropod dinosaurs. Now feathers join the list.

    • Kevin Padian
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 393, P: 729-730