Alan Feduccia, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Alan Feduccia

Paleornithologist

Date of Birth: 25-Apr-1943

Place of Birth: Mobile, Alabama, United States

Profession: zoologist, ornithologist, paleontologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

John Alan Feduccia (born 25 April 1943) is a paleornithologist, specializing in the origins and phylogeny of birds.
He is Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina.
Feduccia's principal authored works include two books, The Age of Birds and The Origin and Evolution of Birds, and numerous papers in various ornithological and biological journals.
Feduccia opposes the scientific consensus that birds originated from and are deeply nested within Theropoda, and are therefore living theropod dinosaurs.
He has argued for an alternative theory in which birds share a common stem-ancestor with theropod dinosaurs among more basal archosaurian lineages, with birds originating from small arboreal archosaurs in the Triassic.