Re: PALEONEWS: New Dino From Mongolia

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/23/00 7:07:17 PM EST, sauropod@ou.edu writes:

<< Maybe this is only funny because I'm so tired.  But the ABC news site
 featured this nugget:
 
 "An artist?s conception of what Byronosaurus jaffei looked like. The small
 dinosaur, which lived in Mongolia, may have shared a common ancestor with
 birds."
 
 The other possibility being that it didn't share a common ancestor with
 birds, and was thus originated independently from the primordial soup?
 Now THAT'S news. >>

As usual, the reporter neglected to at least add the modifier "close" to the 
phrase "common ancestor."