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To: VadeRetro
In 1960 in Wyoming they discovered a Parrots beak..lower half i believe.
Dated to 65 milion yrs ago.
The architecture of the beak has been studied against present day parrots..the 2 nearly match.

Primitive birds with teeth went extinct with the dino's..while toothless birds,like the Parrot survived the time curve.
At some point the reasoning must come forward...if Dino's evolved into Birds....what are fully formed birds doing living at Creteacous period.
My personal view is that the info pertaining to feathers is slim..yet the hypothesised construct is run with..it is now even stated as fact in the evolutionary books fed to our children.
This is really a fantasy that has grown wings.

Comment on dino's:
They are finding fossils from Brazil...Triassic..with counterpart in Arizona U.S.....Staurikosaurus..6 1/2 ft ..runs on 2 legs....has splayed and lengthened hands and feet with claws....4 finger with minor further back near joint.
Head like a velociraptor..with teeth..velociraptor style eye orbits..nasal configuration.
Yet it has fewer bones in its spine..and differs in hip bone numerics.
Meanwhile..creatures which look an move like crocodiles are its competetion.
However one wishes to look at probably the earliest dinosaur..it was specialized...like a raptor.
Yet later...dino's appear with lesser arcitecture development and limitations.

359 posted on 10/03/2002 1:57:09 PM PDT by Light Speed
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To: Light Speed
In 1960 in Wyoming they discovered a Parrots beak..lower half i believe.
Dated to 65 milion yrs ago.
The architecture of the beak has been studied against present day parrots..the 2 nearly match.

True. I didn't know about that one. Thanks!

At some point the reasoning must come forward...if Dino's evolved into Birds....what are fully formed birds doing living at Creteacous period.

Is there no time? You have Ichthyornis, anatomically modern ("tern-like" with a keeled sternum) except for the teeth from around 135 mya. (It went extinct about 70 mya.) Archaeopteryx, which so many creationists dismiss as "A bird! Just a bird!" was about 150 mya, by comparison. A nice page here on early bird groups.

However one wishes to look at probably the earliest dinosaur..it was specialized...like a raptor. Yet later...dino's appear with lesser arcitecture development and limitations.

Dinosaurs radiated into all kinds of crazy niches, including becoming modern birds. I can more easily see why you want to say what you do than I can how.

360 posted on 10/03/2002 3:34:38 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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