regards
cleon dann

Have any of you ever considered the thought that maybe some dinosaurs could fly, and some birds can’t? A flying dinosaur wouldn’t prove they turned into a bird kind, which is very different. I just wonder why you are so determined that they have to. Couldn’t be because of your philosophical worldview could it?

You have probably also accepted the nonsense that the whale has hind limb bones that are vestigial and serve no function, that were left over from when they had four legs and walked on land. You do know don’t you that those bones are organ anchors and they can’t reproduce without them? They are not connected to the vertibral column with no evidence they ever were. The drawings of the so-called whale evolution were from a few bones and an artist’s reconstruction of what they may have looked like.

Change “Once upon a time, long ago and far away,” to “millions of years ago,” and suddenly it becomes believable. You need to rename this. Call it: “From the Goo to You, By Way of the Zoo.”

If confirmed [with more fossil evidence] it would add to the growing evidence that birds are latter day dinosaurs. That is pretty cool, as science goes nowadays.

We’ve already figured out birds, people. The bigger mystery is where turtles fit on the tree of life :)

“tough skin and no glands to tender skin with glands”

Evolved in theropod dinosaurs. Also, mammals did this independently, so this isn’t a hard thing to achieve. Living birds still have both types of skin – touch, scaly skin on their legs.

“lowest metabolic rate on earth to the highest”

Evolved in theropod dinosaurs, and probably increased some more in birds. But reptiles don’t have the “lowest metabolic rate on earth” so what’s your point? High metabolic rate has been evolved independently numerous times – mammals, birds and theropod dinosaurs, great white sharks, bluefin tuna, just to name a few. Increasing metabolic rate is a very easy thing to evolve.

“no muscles for flight to said muscles”

Flight muscles are pectoral muscles. Reptiles already had them from the start. It was just a question of making them bigger. Not difficult.

“developed a system to control body heat”

Already present in theropod dinosaurs.

“developed different lungs, heart, eyes, reproductive systems, etc”

Lungs – already present in theropod dinosaurs. Heart – already present earlier in the archosaur lineage, crocodylians have complex four-chambered hearts. Eyes – already present in earliest reptiles, bird eyes aren’t fundamentally that different. Reproductive system – already present in theropod dinosaurs

“went from a creature that kept growing its whole life to a creature that reaches a growth limit and stops like other creatures”

Already present in theropod dinosaurs

“Well, they do kind of look like reptiles with the feathers off”

No, they look like “reptiles” (dinosaurs) with the feathers ON.

Other possibilities: parachuting after jumping from trees or cliffs, so they can climb higher and faster and get down safely more easily, aiding in jumping to escape predators or catch prey, sexual display, a net for catching insects, etc.

If it turns out they were not used for gliding, flying, or parachuting, then they are not wings. They are arms and legs with long feathers attached to them.

All of the hoaxes of the past century came from far off lands where documentation was scarce if there was any at all?

See, I’d have a much easier time of this if they had found these fossils BEFORE the theory was proffered…

;-)