Re: "X" marks the spot

["Ahmed al-Mahasa Sha'ad" <am_shaad@hotmail.com>]

Birds evolve from pterrosaurs? Are you joking????
There is no evidence at  all for this so your search for  a 'misisng link' 
would probablty be a waste of time.

> Just a random thought....(I often have them when I wake up in the early 
> morning hours)....has anyone tried to intentionally seek out specific 
> formations that may hold the treasures like those that have been unearthed 
> in Laoning China recently??? I mean, now that a farmer just happened to 
> come across that first feathered fossil, they are actively mining the area 
> for more. But, has anyone tried to figure where there may have been the 
> proper conditions for such a bounty of fossils to exist? (ie....lakebed 
> near active volcano). I`d be particularly interested in Triassic deposits 
> myself. My idea of early pterosaurs evolving into birds would involve the 
> first development of feathers in a cold enviorn. Perhaps the missing link 
> would be found in what was then a southern polar region. Perhaps evidence 
> exists at the continental edge where Australia has rifted off from 
> Antarctica, or perhaps Southern South America? There must have been some 
> volcanic activity in these areas,....and some ancient lakes???

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