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Relatives of Living Ducks and Chickens Existed Alongside Dinosaurs More Than 65 Million Years Ago
NC State University ^
| Jan. 19, 2005
| Dr. Julia Clarke
Posted on 01/20/2005 8:31:58 PM PST by bondserv
Relatives of Living Ducks and Chickens Existed Alongside Dinosaurs More Than 65 Million Years Ago
Newly published North Carolina State University research into the evolution of birds shows the first definitive fossil proof linking close relatives of living birds to a time when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
Research by paleontologist Dr. Julia A. Clarke, an assistant professor in the marine, earth and atmospheric sciences department at NC State, and colleagues provides unprecedented fossil proof that some close cousins to living bird species coexisted with dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago. Information from a new avian species called Vegavis iaai indicates that these birds lived in the Cretaceous period and must have survived the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) mass extinction event that included the disappearance of all other dinosaurs.
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Abstract: Long-standing controversy surrounds the question of whether living bird lineages emerged after non-avian dinosaur extinction at the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) boundary or whether these lineages coexisted with other dinosaurs and passed through this mass extinction event.
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KEYWORDS: creation; crevolist; evolution; science
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posted on
01/20/2005 8:31:59 PM PST
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bondserv
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posted on
01/20/2005 8:33:15 PM PST
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bondserv
(Sincerity with God is the most powerful instigator for change! † [Check out my profile page])
To: bondserv
of course.....it is that old Tur-Ducken we have for Thanksgiving.........
To: NorCalRepub
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01/20/2005 8:37:47 PM PST
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austinmark
(If GOD Had Been A Liberal, We Wouldn't Have Had The Ten Commandments- We'd Have The Ten Suggestions.)
To: bondserv
What does Dinosaur taste like? ---- Chicken of course!
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posted on
01/20/2005 8:38:04 PM PST
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Paladin2
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To: narby; dmz; King Prout; Thatcherite; dangus; atlaw
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01/20/2005 8:39:16 PM PST
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bondserv
(Sincerity with God is the most powerful instigator for change! † [Check out my profile page])
To: bondserv
T H E Y L I V E !
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posted on
01/20/2005 8:40:32 PM PST
by
martin_fierro
(Holder of an M.A. Degree in The Obvious)
To: martin_fierro
One half of the Vegavis iaai specimen (left) and the volumetric rendering from the computed tomography (CT) data (right).
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01/20/2005 8:42:05 PM PST
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bondserv
(Sincerity with God is the most powerful instigator for change! † [Check out my profile page])
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
01/20/2005 8:42:55 PM PST
by
gortklattu
(As the preacher in Blazing Saddles said "You're on your own.")
To: bondserv
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posted on
01/20/2005 8:43:02 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
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To: bondserv
If it walks like a duck and
quacks like a duck....
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posted on
01/20/2005 8:44:03 PM PST
by
Paleo Conservative
(Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Andrew Heyward's got to go!)
To: bondserv
these birds lived in the Cretaceous period and must have survived the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) mass extinction event that included the disappearance of all other dinosaurs
Everyone that saw the movie 10 million years BC knows what happened to the dinosaurs. We finally invented spears and figured out how to eat them. I am not sure, however, how they finally got those big dinosaur birds that were picking us out of that lake, maybe they used nets. We owe our ancestors a lot for getting rid of the dinosaurs. They could really ruin your day back then.
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posted on
01/20/2005 8:44:05 PM PST
by
microgood
(Washington State: Ukraine without the poison)
To: Paleo Conservative
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posted on
01/20/2005 8:52:26 PM PST
by
Michael_Michaelangelo
(The best theory is not ipso facto a good theory. http://ww7.com/dna/)
To: bondserv
Some of my relatives are pretty old too, but this is ridiculous.
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posted on
01/20/2005 8:54:05 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Paleo Conservative
Classic.
Reagan would have ran these Evo's out of town.
Duck, Duck Evogoose.
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posted on
01/20/2005 8:58:00 PM PST
by
bondserv
(Sincerity with God is the most powerful instigator for change! † [Check out my profile page])
To: bondserv
MMmmmm! Looks like we'd better get to eatin' them thar things!
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posted on
01/20/2005 9:00:13 PM PST
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save bucks and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: bondserv
A reconstruction by well-known dinosaur artist Michael Skrepnick shows Vegavis in the immediate foreground with a duckbill dinosaur (hadrosaur) in the background. Copyright Michael Skrepnick 2005.
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posted on
01/20/2005 9:03:30 PM PST
by
bondserv
(Sincerity with God is the most powerful instigator for change! † [Check out my profile page])
To: Paleo Conservative
We've known for a long time that DINOs and Chickens have lived side by side.
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posted on
01/20/2005 9:13:54 PM PST
by
dangus
To: dangus
...sadly, DINOs are virtually extinct.
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posted on
01/20/2005 9:15:04 PM PST
by
dangus
To: Paleo Conservative
Hey, who you calling a dinosaur?
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posted on
01/20/2005 9:15:32 PM PST
by
dangus
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