The Musings Of The Lost wrote:
I find it amusing how birds developed from saurischian- lizard hipped- dinosaurs rather than ornithischian- bird hipped- dinosaurs.
I have noticed that irony as well.
Older books (like the Time-Life nature series our family had) divide the dinosaurs into two large groups: the ornihischian (bird hipped) and the saurisuchian (lizard hipped). But it was the lizard hipped dinos that gave rise to the birds, and not the bird-hipped ones. Go figure.
It isn't that unbelievable if you look at evolution as a whole.
Evolution sometimes makes shocking swerves. For example, cetaceans are mammals and pandas are bears that don't eat meat.
10 Jan 2018, 10:27 am
