if you were a prehistoric creature, which would you be?

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18 Nov 2005, 11:59 pm

en_una_isla wrote:

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Well, how many birds with teeth can you name? Archaeopteryx is no bird.

Archaeopteryx has an ambiguous pelvis intermediary between dino and bird. It's both.

Birds are dinosaurs.

If anybody's ever watched an angry female lovebird this would be quite clear.

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19 Nov 2005, 12:39 am

That's correct. Dromaeosaurids in particular, like the Deinonychus in my title, were so birdlike that with recent discoveries we might as well just re-classify them as flightless birds. Their skeletons were scarely different from those of Archaeopteryx. What did Deinonychus truly look like anyway? And if they had survived into modern times, to be seen by man, would we percieve them as birds? Here are a few examples of Deinonychus in art that do not look like the Deinonychus we've grown up with:

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19 Nov 2005, 1:23 am

That second one makes turkey vultures look downright pretty.

Anywhen, from what I read they're going the opposite way and classifying Archeopteryx and several other fethered in-betweens as feathered "non-avian dinosaurs."

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19 Nov 2005, 2:38 am

Quintucket wrote:

Do Dixiecrats count?

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