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Forum Post Museum Unveils Most Bird-like Dinosaur Yet by Adip-complex
<< >Bambiraptor is a bird, nothing else. Then why is the museum that found it calling it a dromaeosaur? Sincerely Yours, Jordan >> Well, they found a flying bird in madagasc...
Forum Post Most Primative Extant Bird by Raptor Lewis
That all depends on what you mean? Oldest known bird or most primitive looking bird living today?
Blog Post Archaeopteryx: Ancient bird or dinosaur? by Random Scientist Inc.
...ad an article about Archaeopteryx. Apparently, paleontologists are starting to believe that it was less bird-like than previously thought. It has now been unofficially classified as a feathered dinosa...
Forum Post onithischia vs saurischia, warning bird-dino question! by FiLoFrAk
Okay its much more likely that I'm confused but... How is it that the birds arose from the Saurischia branch when this is the branch with 'lizard'-like hips? Shouldn't they hav...
Forum Post roc.is it dino?the bird dino.i typed in a ds game whein i tr... by Guest
roc.is it dino?the bird dino.i typed in a ds game whein i tried to typ rock.it look like that
Forum Post 160 million dino fossil shatters bird-dino by Ceph
...means to support, strengthen. So according to the Yahoo article this new dinosaur "strengthens the bird-dino connection." I'm not sure I agree with that conclusion, though. It doesn&...
Forum Post Two recent papers criticizing the Bird s from Dinosaurs Hypothesis by Ernest
Again Do you think this is a bit like the global warming deniers? I don't get it...
Forum Post 40 million year old bird had black shimmering feathers!! by Jon
Just thought I would share this http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090826- iridescent-fossil-feather.html How cool is that? And how come I didn't see it on even one news broadcas...
Photo Comment Peruvian dinosaur footprints... 4600 meters above sea level! by Fossil Huntress
We've found bird trackways in the Pacific Northwest and do not disclose their exact location for exactly the same reason. Tourists and education are great but eventually they bring spray paint and...
Photo Comment smells like skat, looks like skat, then maybe it&#039;s skat... by rickymouse
...system. Although it has some very interesting stone in it. Possibly gizzard like stones of a very large bird like creature. Poop is not my specialty. This one is harder to identify ...
Photo Comment Unnamed Picture by rickymouse
...h on right side, another big molar from a big animal, and some really old teeth and claws. also maybe a bird hip, a femur from a horse, and more. ...
Photo Comment Unnamed Picture by Raptor Lewis
...ite, CBulla. ;) Good for you!! :) I do agree that it's quite an Awesome sight, especially in the bird's eye view, Whalesend! Thanks for sharing!! ...
Forum Post Living Dinosaurs (re: mountain species) by dtilque
Without meaning to get dragged into the bird/dino origins debate, I'd still like to point out that Ruben has been somewhat misquoted here. Although Ruben likes to use his dino evidence to argue f...
Blog Comment Jurassic Park got something right! AGAIN! by Raptor Lewis
...duh, they have the same characteristics. Ornithomimid is a family of Dinosauria, not a specific genus. "Bird-mimic" literally means bird copy. They are NOT birds, though they are really close. There y...
Forum Post Earliest feathers fan controversy by terryjhud
For those who are interested in bird origin, it is important that they read the article in Science. The illustrations are in many cases spectacular, in some cases not as clear as I like, but the evide...
Forum Post How smart was the dinosaurs? by hcg88b
A raven is a very intelligent bird. _Troodon_ was more on the level of a bird with low EQ, such as (IIRC) an emu. Of course, EQ (encephalization quotient: brain size compared to body size) isn't ...
Forum Post Longisquama again by adsdating
...nd that just because the Longisquama had what appears to be feathers does not mean that some species of birds did not evolve from dinos Discovery article on the Longiquama: http://www.discovery.c...
Forum Post A question about passeriform birds by ssdd
Related to my earlier question about grasses... The passeriform group, aka the 'perching birds' or 'songbirds', is the largest group of birds today, right? It comfortably outnu...
Forum Post Feathery Dinosaurs by scott georgeson
...but I still have some doubts and I need more evidence. This I agree. Archaeopteryx is probably more bird than reptile. That would mean a rather early ancestry for birds, too early for many of the ...
Forum Post Discovery Channel: What If There Were No Moon? by elas
...'t understand the use for. Otherwise, I've pretty well had it up to my eyebrows with dino-bird debate, so I don't even read the posts with any header mentioning 'dino' in ...
Forum Post Dino with three huge spear-like things. by tyler keenan
Thats cool There also a very neat looking dino almost like a bird!
Forum Post Ratites, Previously Terror Birds by scott georgeson
...ossil record, and he is a master of this subject as is Storrs. In 'Explosive Evolution in Tertiary Birds and Mammals' Science Feb. 1995, he explains '(birds)were subject to a late Creta...
Forum Post are modern birds more related to archaeopteryx or to the fir... by Al
That is reasonble to assume. Because Archaeopteryx is the oldest known bird that had full primary and secondary flight feathers as modern birds do.
Forum Post Re dinosaur hearts by hedin
...rtebrate cardiovascular system. And thanks for posting the letter here. Of course the supporters of the bird-dinosaur nexus would immediately claim that this latest evidence is support for endothermy ...
Forum Post Egg by Raptor Lewis
Pretty much....though look at a bird's egg and imagine it several times larger depencing on the Dinosaur species.
Forum Post Pterosaur origin by Linda2
...it can fly, although I admit I have never actually seen one do so. It does not look like any flightless bird I have ever seen. It is certainly cursorial by any reasonable definition. The peace of ...
Forum Post The Origin and Evolution of Birds, 2nd edition by gsbisht1
...) is most likely a chimera (a composite) of several different animals. The same locality also yielded a bird: Vorona. If that is the case, then the dinosaurian origin of birds would be disproven....
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