Bird-like dinosaur unearthed... transitional creature anyone?
Posted on: September 30, 2008 - 7:19pm
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Bird-like dinosaur unearthed... transitional creature anyone?
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Scientists have unearthed the remains of a large carnivorous dinosaur that breathed like a bird.The discovery adds to the link between birds and dinosaurs and helps to explain the evolution of birds' unique system of breathing.
As if we needed any more evidence, here's yet another example of creationists' hopeless fight against the notion of "transitional creatures." In case you didn't click the link, this was a 33 foot long two legged predator that probably had feathers. How's that for a visual image?
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Meh. If someone were to one day extract a fruking crockoduck fossil from the earth, Ray would just throw that picture away and argue there's no crocodiluk or crockuck transitional forms. There's no winning with creationists with logic or evidence.
This new fossil is really cool, though. When my childhood learnings about the "extinction" of the dinosaurs was first challenged by a better understanding of evolution, I became a bit enamored with the idea of birds having their gene roots in the terrible lizards of old, likely because I had budgies at the time and could annoy the crap out of my roommate by referring to them as my tiny dinosaurs. So, every bit of evidence that seems to confirm this idea makes me all giggly.
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Hey GOD, I feel cheated ... no wings, no gills ... you god doesn't give a fuck about us. You God sucks, so WE had to create airplanes and scuba stuff .... gezzz, what a fucked up god creator of everything ..... Idiot GOD of Abe , fuck you .... I don't worship you Devil .... go away, back from where you came, leave me alone, you mean old retarded jerk.
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It's suspected that all the dinosaurs of the coelurosaur line had feathers. (T. rex was a coelurosaur.) I imagine the really big ones might have had feathers as youngsters and then lost them as they grew larger. That much insulation isn't needed if you're really, really big. The biggest mammals don't have much hair. Of course, I'm just guessing.
Want to check out a really cool feathered dinosaur? Google Microraptor. I'm in the middle of drawing one in full color, but in lieu of that I give you this Utahraptor.
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How do they know how the dinosuar breathed if all they have is the fossil what evidence or reason do they have.
Also did Jurassic Park accurately represent the dinosaurs based on contemparary knowledge I read somewhere that trex had feathers on its face.
They have the skull - with the shape of the nostrils and sinus cavity there to see, measure and compare.
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Jurassic Park was not too awful bad given what they knew at the time the movie was made.
After the movie was made, China opened some of its paleological research areas, particularly an ancient lake that has since dried up in or near Mongolia. The sands around this lake are very fine and pile up in huge sand dunes. Since the lake was a consistent source of water, reptiles, dinosaurs and early birds would nest there. The sand dunes would occasionally collapse, burying the creature in this powdery sand. With the result that they have found wonderfully preserved fossils - with feather and proto-feather impressions. See Feathered Dinosaurs: the Origin of Birds by John Long and Peter Schouten. Easy to read, gorgeous pictures.
http://www.amazon.com/Feathered-Dinosaurs-Origin-John-Long/dp/0195372662/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297529050&sr=1-4
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