China’s Feathered Dinosaurs

An exhibition at the
Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University
February 13 through May 9, 1999

This very special exhibition of rare fossil specimens of 120-million-year-old “feathered” animals discovered in Liaoning Province, China, was held at the Yale Peabody Museum from February 13 through May 9, 1999, in their only appearance in the northeastern U.S. These finds constitute, in the words of Peabody Curator Emeritus John H. Ostrom, “the biggest event in evolutionary science since Darwin put forth his theory,” and provide compelling evidence that birds evolved from dinosaurs.

The Chinese Fossils
Sinosauropteryx | Protarchaeopteryx | Caudipteryx | Confuciusornis
The Excavation Site | Cladograms

Organized by The National Geographic Society

Curator-in-Charge
Jacques A. Gauthier

Research Assistant
Alan Gishlick

Exhibition Design
John A. Maisano

Fabrication
Walter Brenckle, Robert Charlesworth,
Maishe Dickman, Eric Hoag, Tony Kobylanski

Graphics
Sally H. Pallatto

Graphics Assistants
Brianna Babani, Ryan Karels, Diane Lonardelli

Banner Production
SelectFX

Coordinator
Ken Yellis

Editors
Rosemary Volpe, Ken Yellis

Preparation
Marilyn Fox, Mark Gostnell

Additional Illustration
Armand Morgan, Robin Parkinson

Photography
Jacques A. Gauthier, O. Louis Mazzatenta, William K. Sacco

Video Editing
John Schilke

Sound Editing
Gene Kimball

“The Flight Stroke of Birds” (film)
Courtesy of Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, and the Flight Laboratory, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana

“Dinosaurs in Your Garden”
Courtesy of BBC Worldwide Sales

The Peabody Museum is grateful to the National Geographic Society,
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History, The Field Museum of Natural History and The National Geological Museum of China

China’s Feathered Dinosaurs has been made possible
thanks tothe generous support of

All text and images copyright © 1999 by the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. All rights reserved.

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