You want the whole list pinged for this?
Posted on 09/06/2005 10:02:44 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
You want the whole list pinged for this?
Heh... without struggle there is no progress.
Of course, sometimes, there's also no progress with struggle.
Mostly, people just love struggle, regardless of the outcome.
;')
*shudder*
The echo of the... terrifying *smirk* noise heard far & wide.
Scientists Say 'Feathers' on Fossil Reptile Are Actually Long ScalesEarlier this year, researchers suggested that a small, lizard-like reptile known as Longisquama was studded with long feathers that enabled it to fly, or at least glide. Their interpretation would push back the ancestry of modern birds by 75 million years. Zoologist Hans-Dieter Sues of the University of Toronto and co-author Robert R. Reisz argue that the fine details do not support the feather interpretation. What appear to be feathers poking from the reptile's spine actually are long, thick scales that left cup-like impressions in surrounding rock. Feather advocates dismissed the Canadians' scale interpretation as "total nonsense." Oregon State paleontologist John Ruben, who co-authored the original Longisquama study, said the best fossils, he said, clearly show the creature's long appendages possess a concave-convex structure consistent with the bowed appearance of modern feathers. If Ruben's analysis is correct, it challenges the premise that birds arose from small, meat-eating dinosaurs.
by Rick Callahan
Nov 26 2000Unscrambling Dinosaur EggsSome 68 million years ago a female dinosaur laid 13 eggs in the flood plains near the Pyrenees Mountains of southern France. Fossils of the eggs themselves have provided a little information about dinosaur behavior -- that this particular species buried its eggs in the ground like turtles or crocodiles rather than laying them in a nest like birds.
by Kenneth Chang
Sept 27 1999
Ah, but at least he wouldn't run along flapping his wings to drive the 'defiler of territory' from his range.
The sheer embarrassment from hearing him sound like a huge turkey would probably be sufficient.
Naw. I just thought it might the type of article that would interest my pingees personally. Plus, it gave me a chance to post the first thing that came to mind when I read that particular line.
... *sigh* & what do I imagine?
A T-Rex wildly flapping his minsicule
arms, mouth gaping, full of teeth &
the sound... *gobble gobble gobble*
So far, 138+ views, not bad.
I have a whole new view of Turkey Frankfurters....
Yes, that is the mental image.
Oh, and he's stomping out of the treeline at the Pilgrims.
ROFL!!
... Full of barbed rejoinders.
Hot-Blooded or Cold-Blooded??
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/metabolism.html
The Evidence for Endothermy in Dinosaurs
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/endothermy.html
The Evidence for Ectothermy in Dinosaurs
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/ectothermy.html
Summary of the Debate
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/summarythermy.html
Great. Now I'm thinkin' about the dinosaurian guano...
But I doubt they tasted like chicken...
Hmm, probably not.
Probbaly more like hoatzin.
hehehe :-)
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