Subject: back to your roots
Date: Mar 13 09:37:39 2002
From: Russell Rogers - rrogers122 at attbi.com


Hi Tweeters,

I concur with Dennis. This is a great article. My copy of the Auk was in
the mail Monday evening when I got home. I sat down and read the article
before taking my coat off or eating dinner.

Russell

Dennis Paulson wrote:

> Remember when you were a kid and had a passion for dinosaurs? Then you
> grew up, discovered the opposite sex, got a career, etc. (not necessarily
> in that order), and in your mature years discovered birds. Well, all you
> were doing was getting back to your roots. More and more evidence has
> piled up in the past few years that dinosaurs were indeed the ancestors of
> our feathered friends. The best support is the variety of feathered
> dinosaurs that have been described recently in the scientific literature.
> The last issue of The Auk (Vol. 119, No. 1, Jan 2002) has an article
> detailing the evidence for this and good arguments for why ornithologists
> ought to take dinosaur evolution into account when thinking about the
> biology of birds.
>
> I have taken the liberty of scanning the cover illustration of that Auk, a
> little group of feathered dinosaurs. You can find it at:
> http://www.ups.edu/biology/museum/Microraptor.jpg.
>
> So I wish everyone good dinosauring this weekend!
>
> Dennis


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