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A question about passeriform birds
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 ...
Dinner
... y stuff to some Native American fishermen and found they knew most of the stuff. The woman said the bird was actually pretty common art, and they identified all the Dino fins. The one I was most ...
Re:are modern birds more related to archaeopteryx or to the fir...
That is reasonble to assume. Because Archaeopteryx is the oldest known bird that had full primary and secondary flight feathers as modern birds do.
Re:Dino with three huge spear-like things.
Thats cool There also a very neat looking dino almost like a bird!
Re:Ratites, Previously Terror Birds
Oops, your right: 1 million years. By the way, Alan Feduccia's theories are well supported by the fossil record, and he is a master of this subject as is Storrs. In 'Explosive Evolution in ...
a good day hunting-pic5
Yeah they do. I have some that do. But the flower parts have the smaller closer rings. The flower would have a cluster of these small finger like parts that had like a cup at the base of it attaching ...
Beautiful stones
We call them snowbirds or winter Texans. When I am at the coast fishing in the spring the town is full of them. I have to tell you they mostly are a bunch of rude old grumpy people when here. I hope ...
Re:Egg
Pretty much....though look at a bird's egg and imagine it several times larger depencing on the Dinosaur species.
Re:Re dinosaur hearts
... rate cardiovascular system. And thanks for posting the letter here. Of course the supporters of the bird-dinosaur nexus would immediately ...
trace fossil
hello from rockillussions' is it a common occurance to find a prehistoric bird like form in a lump of carbon ?
Re:Pterosaur origin
... an 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 ...
Re:Did sea monsters survive
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...
Re:The Origin and Evolution of Birds, 2nd edition
... 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 ...
Did most birds survive the K-T extinction? (was: KT Catastrophe)
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): ...
If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck is it a bi...
If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck is it a bird or a dinosaur. please help im confused
Re:Wild Cat Found Mimicking Monkey Calls
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.
Re:what caused the extinction of the animals during the prehist...
... was Big Louis Moilanen. I think a few cave dwelling dinosaurs made it through the event, possibly bird like. They are dead now, at least I haven't heard of any anymore. It is possible that ...
chicken egg question
Egg came first - the egg was probably a reptilian egg that underwent mutations so that when offspring hatched out of egg - it was a bird with feathers and claws on its feet.
Re:are raptors real
Raptors are birds of prey. And they are indeed real. Like the Bald Eagle for instance. The sharp beak of the bird is made for tearing meat and the talons are also razor sharp ready to grab up its ...
Re:Fossil and gemstone hunting in Washington
About Stonerose: I think they're open memorial day through labor day, aren't they? At any rate, I've been there a few times, and I'd highly recommend a trip if you're around ...
Re:have there ever been prehistoric seagulls?
The Miocene toothed bird osteodontornis might qualify, though it was bigger than modern seagulls. More pelican-sized, as I understand it. Mark Hodson Buena Vista Museum of Natural History www. ...
Utahraptor Research, Part 1: Introduction and physical appearance
Actually, Utahraptor didn't have true feathers all over its body, as a bird did. Instead, its arms, legs, tail and head probably had true feathers, and the rest of its body probably had something ...
What did dinosaur beaks look like?
I understand now that most dinosaurs had beaks. I was comparing modern bird beaks to pictures of dinosaur skulls and the similarities are amazing. So what do you think their beaks looked like? Could ...
Re:How many fossil birds?
Good Question. I really don't know how many fossils of birds we have. I guess it referrs to what I call the "Bird-Dino Theory." If you consider some taxa of theropods to be birds, ...
Re:now if you are indeed a rockhound then there is not a shred ...
looks like a giant prehistoric bird' wings tucked in peak out' nice find and its a clam' thats been petrified with minerals ? now the second biggest 1 now thats a greatttttttt heart ...
Re:Random scientist inc, How can dinosaurs and birds be closely...
... mouse, let's see how I do. Guest, look at the anatomical structure of the dinosaurs vs the birds; in simpler terms, look at their skeletons. You will find that dinosaur skeletons and bird ...
Need help with this fossil
... l. i found this rock while i was on a beach in Orange county California. it looks like some type of bird to me. Any help would be great http://www.dinosaurhome.com/images/fbfiles/ ...
Strange rock
It may not have been a rock when this was formed. It could have been sand that got cemented together by calcium and other chemicals, or something could have tunneled through it when it was softer ...
Re:Guys post some of your rock/fossil pics
the 3rd pic is a arrowhead what we call here a bird point. 1st pic I knew was horse tooth. Last pic 2 items to right of coin was told maybe guitar fish but I think maybe Anomoeodus phaseolus what do ...
Re:little off topic/arrowhead hunting
I`ve only been in Mo. maybe a dozen times and it was mostly northeast part. The smallest bird arrowheads thatI have came from there. My Mom was from Marceline near Brookfield and Dad came from the ...
hello again my question is this ? a few yrs ago i discovere...
... is ? a few yrs ago i discovered a lump of carbon (coal)that has a prehistoric image of a very small bird within the coal' as their are no bones just the features of the speciman itself' is ...
Re:possible dino egg fossil
The one side picture looks like a really old deteriorated broken axehead with part of a petrified wood handle in it with a wedge. It is probably just the picture though, an illusion created from my ...
Re:Greetings from th UK
... in law used that salutation/refrain quite often and I never felt comfortable with it. **** as in bird,bill or piehole. Keep your chin up is our equiv. We really ...
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