Steve Brusatte — bird evolution platter
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The book you asked about
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"The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present"
Steve Brusatte, Mariner Books / HarperCollins, US release April 28, 2026.
This is a new copyrighted trade book — not on the platter as a full PDF.

  buy ebook        https://www.amazon.com/Story-Birds-History-Dinosaur-Origins/dp/006334971X
  publisher page   https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/steve-brusatte/the-story-of-birds/9781035032518
  audiobook        https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Story-of-Birds-Audiobook/B0FVFZQ8SR
  library hold     check Libby with your library card (search "Story of Birds Brusatte")

What's on the platter (legitimately free)
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brusatte-2026-the-story-of-birds-extract.pdf
  Author's own book extract published in The Conversation (Apr 28, 2026, with permission).
  Full chapter on Zhenyuanlong, sexual selection, dinosaur color, multiple origins of flight.

brusatte-2015-origin-and-diversification-of-birds.pdf
  Brusatte, O'Connor & Jarvis, Current Biology 25, R888-R898.
  The canonical review article — covers the same evolutionary story academically.

brusatte-2023-iridescent-plumage-dromaeosaur.pdf
  Croudace, Vinther, Brusatte et al., Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.
  The Wulong iridescence paper referenced in the extract.

brusatte-bto-masterclass-archaeopteryx.pdf
  Brusatte's BTO News masterclass on Archaeopteryx (popular-audience version).