Hi all,
Heres one for you to ponder your thouhgts on.
Which is the most Primative Living Bird??
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...
roc.is it dino?the bird dino.i typed in a
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...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...
...laeontologists has found a new species of dinosaur dating back to 160 million years, which bolsters the bird-dino connection, as it exhibits characteristics associated with both dinosaurs and birds.
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<< >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...
Again Do you think this is a bit like the global warming deniers? I don't get it...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
...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...
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...
...etal design of a human, and look at the skeletal design of a dinosaur. Dinosaur skeletons are much more bird-like than human skeletons; even in their Late Triassic form, right when they were beginning...
...'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 ...
...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 ...
Thats cool There also a very neat looking dino almost like a bird!
hmmmm wrote:
Dinosaurs are birds? Nope, it's the other way around. Birds are a group of theropod dinosaurs ; )
It's quite well supported by now. Birds have:
-typical theropod feet (...
...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...
...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 ...
That is reasonble to assume. Because Archaeopteryx is the oldest known bird that had full primary and secondary flight feathers as modern birds do.
Egg
by Raptor Lewis
Pretty much....though look at a bird's egg and imagine it several times larger depencing on the Dinosaur species.
...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 ...
...) 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....
i remember once there was a bird that had an egg self fertilized without a male involved, cant remember the term for it, was a messed up looking chick...
Gerrit Hanenberg alerted me to the following paper:
Cooper, A. and Penny, D. 1997. Mass Survival of Birds Across the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundery: Molecular Evidence. Science 275 (21 February): 11...
One of our cats tries to mimick birds to draw them towards the patio door screen. It's a funny sound and she doesn't sound anything like a real bird but she's trying.
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