Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Skull Analysis Charts the Changes From Dinosaurs to Birds - NYTimes.com

 Pretty funky,,,I have a rudimentary understanding of the complexity of evolution but,,,,

The change from dinosaur to bird is one of those grand evolutionary shifts. The smart, quick theropod dinosaurs that gave rise to birds may have had feathers, but they did not fly and they certainly didn’t resemble birds today. Just think of a pigeon’s acrobatics. Or the legendary dive of the peregrine falcon, which can spot that pigeon from 3,000 feet and drop to earth in a 200-mile-an-hour swoop to strike it.

Skull Analysis Charts the Changes From Dinosaurs to Birds - NYTimes.com

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