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Buce
Dec 23, 2005

they look like my dilznik op

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Buce
Dec 23, 2005

all gross and full of parasites. covered in feathers. etc.

Buce
Dec 23, 2005

apparently they all look(ed) like this:

Buce
Dec 23, 2005

it does seem pretty funny that earlier paleos didn't draw a connection between some of the bones they were finding and modern birds. just assumed everything was a large, modern, armor-plated lizard of some variety.

Buce
Dec 23, 2005

Elukka posted:

So here's the weird thing: They did! The idea that dinosaurs and birds are closely related in some way is as old as evolution. Then for some reason it was forgotten for a century. The clear relation between Archaeopteryx, of which a preserved flight feather was found in 1861, and other dinosaurs, was used as an argument in support of this wild new book called On the Origin of Species.

Art from 1916:



well that's pretty interesting

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Buce
Dec 23, 2005

big bird knocks you off cliff faces while you're trying to eat lichen and then feasts on your broken body

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