Re: Quo vadis, T. rex? [long]

[Jeff Poling <jpoling@infinet.com>]

At 12:47 PM 2/6/96 -0500, Sharon A. Calpin (717) 621-3118 wrote:
>Whoever wrote
>"Why? They're all birds, you know..."
>If you were walking down the street with a non-dinosaur-knowledgable person
and  
>a tyrannosaur walked by (if only), would you say "Whoa, that's a BIG bird" ?? 
>(Granted, you'd probably say a lot more than that)
>
>Mr. Webster says:
>bird: any of a class (Aves) of warm-blooded vertebrates distinguished by
having 
>the body more or less completely covered with feathers and the forelimbs 
>modified as wings.
>
>Everyone is trying to be so careful about pronunciation and Latin spelling, 
>why not be careful about vocabulary.

   Big assumption here, perhaps?  If we assume T. rex is a maniraptoran
coelurosaur, does it not make sense that it would have had feathers of some
sort?  THEN, perhaps, if a tyrannosaur walked by (nanotyrannus, perhaps,
since it was small enough to (perhaps) need insulation) they would say
"Whoa, that's a BIG bird!  &%(&$%) (@&@ ^&$ @^_)*%(@&^)_^&(@&%@)!!!!!!"

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