[shineon]

[Red Badger]

That's why I wear a Tin Hat!........

[pissant]

BS

[L98Fiero]

“T. rex confirmed as great granddaddy of all birds”

That is not what was stated in the article at all. Not to mention the glaring errors that were even mentioned in the article.

If these last two articles are any kind of example of “New Science”, it leaves a great deal to be desired.

[thulldud]

Forget the protein analysis. Just cook it and see what it tastes like.

(You think that's what they actually did?)

[Question Liberal Authority]

According to Jurassic Park, T-Rex's eat lawyers.

I say it's time to feed the pigeons.

[onedoug]

Interesting.

[mysterio]

Good find.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - has anyone bothered to examine the pulmonary systems of T-Rex and birds? They are totally different.

[Fido969]

Explains a lot.

[buck jarret]

Dinasaurs were close to birds - that isn’t news - but it is unlikely that a T-Rex was the ancestor of any living thing, as this headline implies.

[windsorknot]

T. Rex was granddaddy of the Byrds?

[Elpasser]

What nonsense.

After 2 centuries of unearthing fossils, we have a pretty complete picture of the dinosaur fauna, give or take some outliers.

Surely if this were true one could assemble a credible, date-verified progression of fossils showing evolution from this prehistoric giant to feather-covered, hollow-skulled birds.

But, alas! Nothing even close.

[wolfcreek]

Wonder if them *yard* Rexes ate 6 ft grasshoppers?

[PzLdr]

Answers why the chicken crossed the road. To get away from Granddad

[Does so]

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".

:)

[RightWhale]

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.

[Ptarmigan]

Ptarmigans descended from dinosaurs. Something rabbits should really reconsider waging war against.

[js1138]

The headline has been changed form the original, and it is factually untrue. On a forum like this, it invites justified derision.