Re: birds and dinosaurs

[Stephen Moore <smooreph@yahoo.com>]

Interesting, because it seems to me that they
"Phorusrhacos(sp?), Diatryma, etc., ": would have
occupied the 
same predatorial niche as larger tyrannosaurs, except
on a smaller 
scale. Both are birdlike/birds, with powerful crushing
jaws as they're 
main weapon, with presumably useless forelimbs and are
long-legged 
bipeds. Only real difference is the absence of a long,
counterbalancing 
tail.

What about differences such as feathers?, or high
metabolism, extreme good eyesight, and high
intelligence, not to mention specialization to hunt
small mammalian prey.


       

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