Posted on 06/17/2009 3:50:48 PM PDT by xcamel
June 17, 2009—The fossil hand of a long-necked, ostrich-like dinosaur recently found in China may help solve the mystery of how bird wings evolved from dinosaur limbs, according to a new study.
The ancient digits belonged to a 159-million-year-old theropod dinosaur dubbed Limusaurus inextricabilis. Theropods are two-legged dinos thought to have given rise to modern birds.
Although it was a distant relative of Tyrannosaurus rex, the newfound dinosaur was a small herbivore, said study co-author James Clark, a biologist at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The animal was about 5.6 feet (1.7 meters) long and had relatively short, clawless forearms.
"Its head is [also] unusual because it doesn't have any teeth, so it would have had a beak of some sort, although not a sharp one," Clark said. (Related: "New Dinosaur Was Nut-Cracking 'Parrot.'")
Primitive feathers may have covered the dinosaur's body, but there is no direct evidence for that, noted Clark, whose work was funded in part by the National Geographic Society. (The National Geographic Society owns National Geographic News.)
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sputter, sputter. Which is the “new information,” completely contradicting the other?
I once took a pic of a several emu feet.
Whenever I see that pic, it never fails to throw me. The feet are exactly the same as most Dinos, exactly.
You were the one who strode out like a neanderthal swinging the crevo club, now go back under your bridge, troll.
I took no stance whatever, I simply pointed out you can’t have it both ways. But your over-interpretation of what I said tells a lot about your analytic ability.
Epic fail on the truth button.
Details, details...
And not very far from where Marco Polo said that his men had been frightened by the dynosaurs (Dragons).
see post #14, and add the CASSOWARY to the list.
I agree, you ejected yourself as anyone capable of doing anything in a discussion other than throw spitballs.
When you can’t refute the truth, insult the teller. How very “christian” of you.
And they made chicken soup from them?
OK, here’s the truth: the finding of the dinosaur finger is one small piece of information that may fit one set of facts that has been presented but seems to be contradictory to another line of investigation that had been published as recently as last week. Thus, the writer of the headline on the article was wise, and humble, enough to include a “?” You, however, as the writer of the material enclosed in the parentheses, are the “truthteller” and your program is to display attitude rather than convey information, facts, evidence or context. But that’s OK, lots of people get by on flapping.
Keep trying...you seem to have the “flapping” thing down pat.
To whom and where did you "state" it, an imaginary friend under your desk?
More of them are being found every day. Transitional forms do exist.
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I have never seen any. Just complete ‘finished’ products
You would think there would be many many more of this mutations that died off
None of the birds on your list have anything evolving. - All of the fossils of them are essentially the same as they are today (just like all the other animals are too)
According to their diaries, they got the H___ outta there.
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