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Re: Archeopteryx what is bird or dinosaur?

To: DML <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: Re: Archeopteryx what is bird or dinosaur?
From: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:32:21 +0200
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I believe the question being asked here is whether Archaeopteryx was a bird or a non-avian dinosaur---something I wonder myself, and paleontologists have apparently yet to confidently determine.

That's a complex interplay of definition and discovery. Given the same phylogenetic position, Archie is or is not a bird depending on the definition of Aves.

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