Dinosaurs Not Extinct - Official
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A symposium of paleontoligists meeting in London today are liklely to announce that it is now officially recognised that birds are a family of dinosaur.
New evidence on the evolution of feathered dinousaurs covering over a 150 million years of evolution seems to have clinched the argument.
I won't look at a blue tit on my garden feeder in the same way ever again.
(I posted this in The Lounge because I can't see anywhere else it could fit in).
New evidence on the evolution of feathered dinousaurs covering over a 150 million years of evolution seems to have clinched the argument.
I won't look at a blue tit on my garden feeder in the same way ever again.
(I posted this in The Lounge because I can't see anywhere else it could fit in).
Edited by Eric Mc on Friday 25th September 08:33
Spot the similarities with the modern day Hoatzin -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoatzin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoatzin
Edited by central on Friday 25th September 08:57
dirty boy said:
Given the amount of areas untouched by man still, is there any chance there are dinosaur'esque species still alive and awaiting discovery?
Apart from birds, no - unless they are VERY, VERY small.Large animals and their tracks can be observed from satellite imagery and any isolated families of large animals would more than likely have been spotted by now. Although there were many small dinosaurs, there have been no discoveries of VERY small dinosaurs. It seems that the smallest possible dinosaur was about the size of a chicken.
If dinosaurs HAD been able to exploit the niches occupied by small animals, then I very much doubt that mammals would have survived the dinosaur era and we wouldn't be here.
SGirl said:
lazyitus said:
Eric Mc said:
A symposium of paleontoligists meeting in London today are liklely to......
How the f
k can you spell symposium and paleontoligists correctly and then write the word liklely ?
Blimey, Eric. You'll be spelling 'a' incorrectly, soon.
Eric Mc said:
dirty boy said:
Given the amount of areas untouched by man still, is there any chance there are dinosaur'esque species still alive and awaiting discovery?
Apart from birds, no - unless they are VERY, VERY small.Large animals and their tracks can be observed from satellite imagery and any isolated families of large animals would more than likely have been spotted by now. Although there were many small dinosaurs, there have been no discoveries of VERY small dinosaurs. It seems that the smallest possible dinosaur was about the size of a chicken.
If dinosaurs HAD been able to exploit the niches occupied by small animals, then I very much doubt that mammals would have survived the dinosaur era and we wouldn't be here.
+ you've got sharks, turtles, crocs and shelly stuff.
Some scientist believe there are still milions of creatures to identify on the earth. eg the fish found off Brazil the other day.
There are thought to have been 5 mass extictions in the geolgocial record. 98% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct.
'Or God done it' - depends on your view point.
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