RE: 99 million Year Old Bird Transition Found
June 9, 2017 at 8:02 am
(This post was last modified: June 9, 2017 at 8:20 am by Anomalocaris.)
(June 9, 2017 at 12:57 am)Aroura Wrote: This is so cool! When I was a kid, we were told dinosaurs were extinct. To realize that some survived and live on, as an amazingly adaptable group of animals, is so exciting to me.
Actually, birds being dinosaurs, there are still far more living species of dinosaurs in the world today than there are living mammal species, despite our vainglorious effort to label the last 64 million years as the "Age of mammals"
(June 8, 2017 at 11:13 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: This is awesome. But cue Creationist excuse making
http://www.sciencealert.com/99-million-y...d-in-amber
Also, "99-million-year-old-dinosaur-wings" is accurate but seems to have been intended to mislead in this context. Birds are a subset of dinosaurs, yes. But what was found seem to be the wings of a true bird, albeit a lineage of birds which went extinct with all non-avian dinosaurs and were not closely related to modern birds. It is however not a non-avian dinosaur or a transition between non-avian and avian dinosaur.
