TED Talk: Building a dinosaur from a chicken
This is the URL for the TED Talk given by Professor Jack Horner in 2011.
Classifying Animals by Appearance Versus DNA Sequence
This is the URL for the BLOSSOMS lesson, "Identifying Animals by Appearance versus by DNA", that is recommended by the teachers of this lesson.
WIRED: How to Hatch a Dinosaur
This is a link to the Wired Magazine article, “How to Hatch a Dinosaur”, referred to in this video lesson.
Tech Times: Bird Evolution Decoded
This article from the Tech Times is entitled “Bird Evolution Decoded: Scientists Map Genomes of 48 Species”. It provides an extension for this BLOSSOMS lesson.
Wikipedia: Jack Horner (paleontologist)
This is a Wikipedia entry on the paleontologist, Jack Horner.
PBS Learning Media: Protein Synthesis in the Cell
This site, sponsored by Teachers’ Domain, provides a comprehensive lesson on the topic of protein synthesis, a familiarity with which is a prerequisite for this BLOSSOMS lesson.
Nature.com
This article from Nature journal provides new evidence about prehistoric dinosaur tissue.