Re: birds DID NOT evolve from therapods

["aspidel" <aspidel@infonie.be>]

"Primal Dude" told us:
> >Laugh all you want buddy. Ruben and his colleagues now far more about
> >vertebrate metabolism than you ever will. Birds are WARM-
> >BLOODED. Therapod dinosaurs were COLD-BLOODED. Didn't you read his two
> >papers in Science...???

HP Nicholas Gardner wrote:
> Could you please explain why you disagree?  Maybe with really good proof
as
> to why Bakker and Ostrom were wrong? Or perhaps a reason as to why
dinosaurs
> could live in a snowy paleoecological locales if they were cold-blooded?

Imagine the life of a cold-blooded _Cryolophosaurus_... It's nonsense!

I'll add: if I remember well, there have been studies on _Acrocanthosaurus_
tracks which showed that only a warm-blooded animal could have made those
tracks.

Dude again:
> >Not content with putting feathers on therapods
EVOLUTION DID!!! Did you see the wonderful feathered fossil of
cf._Sinornithosaurus_?

> >now you want to put wings on them as well.
It just depends on what you call "wings" If you think about _Archaeopteryx_,
why not IMHO.

> >Yeah, - velociraptor could fly.
Can ostriches fly with their wings??? And _Velociraptor_ is with a big V:
it's a genus name.

> >You therapod people are living in a fantasy world. Get back to earth and
> >join the rest of us!!!
>
> Actually, we live here in reality. Maybe you should come down and join the
> rest of us. The BAND supporters are not many, just a few with LOUD VOICES.

You read the BAND arguments, OK. Now I'd suggest you to read the BADD
arguments.
I'm just an amateur paleoartist who joined the list to learn more about
dinosaurs, and I've learned many things yet.
So forget the old image of "dumb and cold dinos" and remember that
paleontology always progresses.

Friendly - Luc J."Aspidel" BAILLY.