The feathered Tyrannosaurus

OK, tyrannosaurs had feathers. If they were really ordinary reptiles, rather than archosaurs, those would be feather boas, right?

How about these guys?

Flying reptiles were 'size of plane'

Reptiles that soared through the skies in the dinosaur era may have been almost twice as big as had been previously thought.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Biologically, we are no more like wolves than whales are.
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I know a few people that could be mistaken for whales, especially if they were lying around on the beach ......
 
gajinoz said:
I know a few people that could be mistaken for whales, especially if they were lying around on the beach ......
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hey hey--lay off the anti-Americanism!

:D
 
To add to the mix they recently found , in Mexico, a pterosaur with a wingspread of 18m !!!
 
The Last Confederate said:
Just curious, have you read Darwin?
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No, actually only what was written in the primary school textbook...and even back then I wasn't satysfied with how Darwin explained origin of species...actually even that Lamarck made more sense to me...
 
Blueeyeddevil said:
No, actually only what was written in the primary school textbook...and even back then I wasn't satysfied with how Darwin explained origin of species...actually even that Lamarck made more sense to me...
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I'm very happy that Lamarck makes sense to somebody. It really is such an elegant theory: inheritance of acquired characteristics. Of course, it is rarely seen in nature. Actually, that is too bad. Just think, if we all inherited acquired characteristics, all the Jews here would not need to undergo circumcision--since our ancestors have been doing it for so long, we could have just been born that way.
:rolleyes: :D
 
shaldag said:
I'm very happy that Lamarck makes sense to somebody. It really is such an elegant theory: inheritance of acquired characteristics. Of course, it is rarely seen in nature. Actually, that is too bad. Just think, if we all inherited acquired characteristics, all the Jews here would not need to undergo circumcision--since our ancestors have been doing it for so long, we could have just been born that way.
:rolleyes: :D
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Well, if you wait a couple of million years I'm quite sure it will happen. Darwins evolutionist hyphothesis also works over very long time period,like millions of years.
 
Blueeyeddevil said:
No, actually only what was written in the primary school textbook...and even back then I wasn't satysfied with how Darwin explained origin of species
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It always amazes me how many people think they are qualified to discuss a topic and or author without actually reading it/them.

:rolleyes:
 
They may have had feathers but they sure as hell could bite.

My favorite prehistoric animals were Andrewsarchus and Sarkastodon though:

http://www.johnsibbick.com/window/andrew.asp

Andrewsarchus was a sort of rhino-sized, carnivorous relation of horses, with feet like an elephant might have. The mammmalian experiments after the Great Dying were pretty cool I think.

Chris
 
Blueeyeddevil said:
No, actually only what was written in the primary school textbook...and even back then I wasn't satysfied with how Darwin explained origin of species...actually even that Lamarck made more sense to me...
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Lovely, Darwin does not make sense but Lamarck does. Lamarck had his modern enthusiasts such as Trofim Lysenko and Josef Stalin. The argument that evolution occurred through acquired characteristics fit the Marxist-Leninist view of the world and Stalin's view of how to create the modern "Socialist Man" so Lysenko became the great hero of Soviet biology until after Stalin's death. Blueeyeddevil, you put yourself in great company.
 
FullerH said:
Lovely, Darwin does not make sense but Lamarck does. Lamarck had his modern enthusiasts such as Trofim Lysenko and Josef Stalin. The argument that evolution occurred through acquired characteristics fit the Marxist-Leninist view of the world and Stalin's view of how to create the modern "Socialist Man" so Lysenko became the great hero of Soviet biology until after Stalin's death. Blueeyeddevil, you put yourself in great company.
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What's wrong with being in company with great comrade Stalin? :D ;)
Who was Trofim Lysenko? I have never heard of him before. I'm not sure if Lamarck's hyphothesis fit Marxist-Leninist view of the world. I haven't read The Capital or Lenin's work either although it can be certainly said that I have never had Marxist-Leninist view of the world.
 
gajinoz said:
I know a few people that could be mistaken for whales, especially if they were lying around on the beach ......
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Is that why people tried to push me back into the sea this past summer?
 
Blueeyeddevil said:
Better see than read. I don't waste my time on reading matters which I totaly disagree with... beside too much reading is very bad for eyesight...
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I'm assuming this is a joke!
 
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