Re: small dinosaurs with feathers

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

> From: StephanPickering@cs.com

> In a forum such as this, the word "bird" is meaningless.

I couldn't disagree with you more.  "Bird" is just as valid a term as 
dinosaur.  Just as there was the first dinosaur, which gave rise to the rest 
of its clade; so too was there the first bird, which gave rise to the rest 
of its respective clade.  It's just a matter of determining exactly what 
that first bird might have been.
Besides, it's a helluva lot less confusing (annoying?) than refering to all 
birds as extant dinosaurs/theropods.

Jordan Mallon

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