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Re: birds and dinosaurs

To: DML <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: Re: birds and dinosaurs
From: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 17:27:47 +0200
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> Which reminds me, what did the murderous flightless birds from after
> the age of dinosaurs like Phorusrhacos(sp?), Diatryma, etc., evolve
> from . . .

They all seem to have evolved after the K-Pg mass extinction. *Gastornis*
(including "*Diatryma*") seems to be an anseriform (a goose turned
godzilla), and for *Phorusrhacus*, find out what a seriema (*Cariama*) is.
:-) http://images.google.com finds decent results for "seriema".

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