Re: 4 winged dino NOVA

[Jura <pristichampsus@yahoo.com>]

--- Denver Fowler <df9465@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> the video here...
> 
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/microraptor/
> 
> .. which i would guess is going to be part of the
> PBS special, shows pretty clearly that the legs are
> very splayed in the model.

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I clicked on the "built to fly" section and opened
their interactive player. There, I was greeted by the
following statement:

"Flight and feathered wings are characteristics we
associate with birds, but many dinosaur, including
_Microraptor_, evolved these traits long after the
first known bird, _Archaeopteryx_, split from the
dinosaur family tree."

Geez, I normally don't knock the quality of NOVA
specials (as documentaries go, they are pretty good),
so I'm hoping that this was a typo on the web
designer's end. If not, then expect to hear about the
amazing convergent evolution of _Microraptor_ with
birds.

Jason

"I am impressed by the fact that we know less about many modern [reptile] types 
than we do of many fossil groups." - Alfred S. Romer


      
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