Re: small dinosaurs with feathers

[Brent Jones <brentasaurus23@yahoo.com>]

>>From: StephanPickering@cs.com
>>In a forum such as this, the word "bird" is
meaningless.

 Jordan Mallon  wrote:
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.

I say, not only that, it takes fewer keystrokes and
can create fewer mistakes in our emails. Efficiency
can be as important as using the proper terms...

Brentasaurus

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