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Tag Archives: birds
A New Look at Animal Evolution
By Adam D.A. Manning (@AdamManning)
The evolution of life is an endlessly fascinating subject to study. The richness of the ever-changing chronicle of living things is part of the beauty of nature and in recent decades a new approach to viewing the evolution of the terrestrial vertebrates (that is the reptiles, birds, and mammals) has emerged which challenges our conventional categories.
Reptiles, birds, … Read more
Posted in The Science-Minded Citizen
Tagged birds, dimetrodon, Evolution, mammals, reptiles, synapsids
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The Age of Dinosaurs – Today
“The dinosaurs are not extinct.”
Robert T. Bakker, Paleontologist.
Imagine the dinosaurs, imperiously soaring, loftily above lowly, scurrying mammals. They are the rulers of all they survey from one horizon to the other. Is this hierarchy confined to a prehistoric scene, 100 million years ago? No. This is our world, today.
The name “dinosauria” was first used by biologist Richard Owen … Read more
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