Re: dinos and birds

[Tyrberg Tommy <tommy.tyrberg@aerotechtelub.se>]

Pheret wrote:

> do palentologists, et al., study their fossils with the realization
that,
> especially if it is just one example of a creature, that it could be a
> fluke?  and this is not asked sarcastically!

I actually made a study of that a few years ago. It concerned one of the
very few cases when we can say for sure that a fossil is a fluke
("vagrants" they are called by ornithologists), i. e. marine birds at
inland sites. The answer is, Yes vagrants do occur as fossils, but only
very rarely, and only if the fossil record is quite extraordinarily
good, and the vagrants themselves are fairly common (for vagrants).

Tommy Tyrberg