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Re: Birdosaurs

To: Tom T <tomt@f1.net.au>
Subject: Re: Birdosaurs
From: "T. Mike Keesey" <tkeese1@gl.umbc.edu>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 09:26:27 -0500 (EST)
Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu
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On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Tom T wrote:

> I'm going to say this, simple and short: ARE BIRDS DINOSAURS? Since I
> asked a simple question, please give me a simple answer.

It can't get more simple than "Yes."

By Gauthier's cladistic definition of Dinosauria (the most recent common
ancestor of modern birds and _Triceratops_ and all of its descendants),
they are dinosaurs.

--T. Mike Keesey
tkeese1@gl.umbc.edu
DINOSAUR WEB PAGES -- http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~tkeese1/dinosaur/index.htm

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- Birdosaurs
  - From: Tom T <tomt@f1.net.au>

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