So, were dinosaur bones so similar to bird bones? It’s clear that these sources say that the bones were hollow, but only one source, the Boston Globe, uses the comparison to birds, and only when speaking about some of the bones.
Are we talking about bird-like hollowness, or man-like hollowness? Our bones are hollow, at least the long bones (and a couple others), and filled with marrow. But they’re not bird-like.
I’ve seen a lot of great Discovery and Science Channel shows about dinosaurs, and none of them compared the hollowness of dinosaur’s bones to birds bones.
Am I really missing such an interesting similarity? I’ve seen documentaries that compare dinos to birds, and never heard this claim before.
The bones are hollow, but to claim that hollow bones (and only hollow bones) makes it an avian is an unsupported conclusion (such as the Boston Globe seems to do). Hasn't the creationist intelligent design crowd always complained that science jumps to unsupported conclusions?
But if something has hollow bones, a wishbone, and feathers, and lays eggs, what would you call it?
... And now they've found proteins matching chickens, ... Jim, it's a pretty safe bet that Tyrannosaurus rex (& friends) are related to birds.
Are we talking about bird-like hollowness, or man-like hollowness? Our bones are hollow, at least the long bones (and a couple others), and filled with marrow. But they’re not bird-like.
So how are they different?
(Never mind that was a rhetorical question,...)
Like most of the 5000 species of living mammals, human bone has thick relatively homogeneous walls and are filled with marrow, as you state.
Birds have thin laminar walls and are air-filled.
The bones of T. rex are like the bird pattern, --so much alike that they can determine the sex of the specimen.
I’ve seen a lot of great Discovery and Science Channel shows about dinosaurs, and none of them compared the hollowness of dinosaur’s bones to birds bones.
Maybe they aren't willing to get out onto thin ice ... and just because you haven't seen E. coli doesn't mean it's not there.
--or that you won't get sick from eating contaminated hamburger.
Am I really missing such an interesting similarity?
Apparently.
... I’ve seen documentaries that compare dinos to birds, and never heard this claim before.
I thought you said you haven't seen it before?
... no matter, I think you're going to see more of them now.