Giant fossil shows huge birds lived among dinosaurs

BBC News ^ | 8-10-2011

[Renfield]

The fossilised jawbone is nearly twice the length of that of an ostrich, the largest bird found on Earth today

[Renfield]

Dino-ping...

[null and void]

Make a wish...

[Sacajaweau]

Do you see what I see?? It looks like.....”Oh, no...I’m a lesbian”.

[Larry Lucido]

I’d consider living among dinosaurs, if I were a huge bird.

[PzLdr]

I’d consider living ABOVE them.

[LyinLibs]

“huge birds lived among dinosaurs”

That doesn’t shock me, since in modern times, we have moslems living among humans.

[NativeSon]

Wing night at the Bedrock Pub

[ZX12R]

I thought birds came from dinosaurs, or was that just chickens?

[PapaBear3625]

There was one branch of the dino family that became birds. Other branches didn’t. The bird branch was the one that survived whatever killed off the other dinos.

[ZX12R]

Wing night at the Bedrock Pub

Mmmmm...Samrukia nessovi wings, and brontosaurus ribs. If they put the wings on the passenger side, the car won't tip over.

[ZX12R]

There was one branch of the dino family that became birds. Other branches didn’t. The bird branch was the one that survived whatever killed off the other dinos.

I see. The one branch took to the sky, and the rest stayed on the ground and ate each other to extinction.

[x]

... and mated with wooly mammoths ...

[SunkenCiv]

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[bigheadfred]

Do you see what I see??

Yeah. The reason people with dentures don't chew Bubbleyum.

Oh, no...I’m a lesbian

One date with the bighead otta cure ya of that...

[gleeaikin]

There were some really large aggressive land birds in the Paleocene, perhaps this line survived in enough quantity to reproduce rapidly. My theory is that after all the other bad stuff from the boloid extinction, another problem was that the ozone layer was severly damaged or gone for a while. Anything with feathers, nocturnal habits, living underground, hibernating in the mud, etc. had a better chance of surviving. Thus we have birds, mammals, snakes, frogs, turtles, alligators, etc., but adios dinosaurs.

[gleeaikin]

I decided to Google the big bird issue and found this interesting link regarding the shift from few carnivorous mammals to higher numbers after the KT extinction. Also the large bird I mentioned was Gastornis in the Palecene, followed by equally large Miatryma in the early Eocene (illustrated). SC this is a nice link and might deserve a separate ping post.

http://www.paleocene-mammals.de/predators.htm

[1010RD]

If you’ve got an enormously long time horizon, enough branches (harshly pruned or nimbly grafted as needed) and are comfortable with flexibly interpreted morphogenesis and physiogeny, presto you can ‘evolve’ anything.

You could also simply repeat “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” a thousand times and then just turn your brain off.

[ZX12R]

If you’ve got an enormously long time horizon, enough branches (harshly pruned or nimbly grafted as needed) and are comfortable with flexibly interpreted morphogenesis and physiogeny, presto you can ‘evolve’ anything. You could also simply repeat “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” a thousand times and then just turn your brain off.

Reading your post, made my brain shut off. Is it possible to put that in layman's term?

[Sacajaweau]

The line is from the “Everyone Loves Raymond” show