Re: begging behaviour among theropods

["Jordan Mallon" <j_mallon@hotmail.com>]

> From: StephanPickering@cs.com

> Unless I fail to understand my own choice of words, I believe I was >clear 
> in what I was saying. In speaking of extant dinosaurs, one rules >out all 
> of Dinosauria except a small group of theropod clades which >survived the 
> K/T extinction events, some persisting and thriving now.

You did not say "extant dinosaurs"; you said simply "dinosaurs."  And when 
someone says "dinosaurs," I assume they mean all "dinosaurs," not a select 
group of highly derived dinosaurs.

> But, if it makes you happy, the literature I mentioned in my messages >are 
> concerned with highly derived, avialian, feathered, flying and >secondarily 
> flightless, theropods.

Ooooooohhhhhhhh.... you mean "birds"!!!

Jordan Mallon

Undergraduate Student, Carleton University
Vertebrate Paleontology & Paleoecology

Website: http://www.geocities.com/paleoportfolio/
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