Re: birds and dinosaurs

[Amtoine Grant <ajgrant@eastlink.ca>]

On Sunday, July 4, 2004, at 09:32  AM, David Marjanovic wrote:

> > > what do you think the "bird" line had that allowed them to survive?
> >
> > In a word? Luck.
>
> Well said, especially considering the fact that most birds did die 
> out. (OK,
> the fossil record is too poor to tell exactly when, but there are many 
> bird
> clades in the latest Cretaceous that have not been found in Cenozoic
> layers.)

Which reminds me, what did the murderous flightless birds from after 
the age of dinosaurs like Phorusrhacos(sp?), Diatryma, etc., evolve 
from . . .