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T. Rex Confirmed As Great Grandaddy Of All Birds
New Scientist ^
| 4-24-2008
| Ewen Callaway
Posted on 04/24/2008 1:37:14 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam
Wonder if them *yard* Rexes ate 6 ft grasshoppers?
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posted on
04/24/2008 2:23:36 PM PDT
by
wolfcreek
(I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
To: windsorknot
"T. Rex was granddaddy of the Byrds?" Byrds
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posted on
04/24/2008 2:38:01 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: wolfcreek
"Wonder if them *yard* Rexes ate 6 ft grasshoppers?"You mean the Yardbirds?
(BTW, the Yardbirds evolved into Led Zeppelins)
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posted on
04/24/2008 2:42:58 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: McKayopectate
Yes, but think of the poached eggs!
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posted on
04/24/2008 2:46:40 PM PDT
by
I-ambush
To: blam
Answers why the chicken crossed the road. To get away from Granddad
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posted on
04/24/2008 2:59:29 PM PDT
by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: PzLdr
"Answers why the chicken crossed the road. To get away from Granddad" Nah. He was showing the armadillo that it could be done.
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posted on
04/24/2008 3:47:53 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
I'd hate to be in the same room with this Mary Schweitzer (
UNC-Raleigh) and Alan Feduccia (
UNC-Chapel Hill). They're on completely opposite ends of dinosaur/bird evolution.
I recall that Dr. Feduccia did an especially elegant study of foot structure ontogeny in the two lifeforms, and decided they could not be related. He supervised a female assistant in this study—could it be Mary Schweitzer????
My own inclination is that birds evolved before "the dinosaurs"—and that's based on studies from a decade (or two) ago. Still, I like to think that the critter at the bird feeder harkens back to the epoch of the "terrible lizards".
:)
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posted on
04/24/2008 4:31:03 PM PDT
by
Does so
(...against all enemies, DOMESTIC and foreign...)
To: blam
I put up a bird feeder for finches, chickadees, wrens because they eat the wasps and mosquitoes and are not bad to have around most of the time. The gray jays are attacking the squirrels which is also great. They aren’t eight feet tall like ostriches or 20 feet tall like T Rex but if they were I wouldn’t feed them.
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posted on
04/24/2008 4:35:29 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: spanalot
...and Get it on!.........
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posted on
04/25/2008 5:42:18 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
To: blam
Ptarmigans descended from dinosaurs. Something rabbits should really reconsider waging war against.
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posted on
04/25/2008 8:06:55 PM PDT
by
Ptarmigan
(Bunnies=Sodomites)
To: blam
The headline has been changed form the original, and it is factually untrue. On a forum like this, it invites justified derision.
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posted on
04/25/2008 8:11:31 PM PDT
by
js1138
To: js1138
"The headline has been changed form the original, and it is factually untrue. On a forum like this, it invites justified derision."They changed the headline. The headline posted here is the same that was posted on New Scientist at the time of this posting.
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posted on
04/25/2008 8:54:42 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
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posted on
04/25/2008 8:57:52 PM PDT
by
js1138
Note: this topic was posted 4/24/2008. Thanks blam.
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posted on
09/18/2014 6:03:54 PM PDT
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