09-04: From Dinos to Birds with Christopher DiPiazza

January 23, 2025

For many of us, an interest in birds and nature started with an interest in dinosaurs. Which is approriate since that’s the path modern birds took when they became birds. We still don’t know a lot about how dinosaurs looked and lived, but it stands to reason that if one were looking to recreate things that came before and are no longer with us that you would want to look at their closest living relatives. That is, in fact what my guest Christopher DiPiazza, of Prehistoric Beast of the Week, is all about. He is a middle school teacher and a dinosaur educator, but also a birder and paleoartist. We talk about the overlap between bird science and dino science and how he creates prehistoric art based on the birds he watches.

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