Re: AW: 55 million year old parrot found

[Neil Taylor <nf.taylor@ntlworld.com>]

evelyn sobielski wrote:
> --- Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au> schrieb am So, 18.5.2008:
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>   
> > Von: Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>
> > Betreff: Re: AW: 55 million year old parrot found
> > An: dinosaur@usc.edu
> > Datum: Sonntag, 18. Mai 2008, 1:09
> >     
> > http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00777.x
> >
> > An ex-parrot from somewhere close to Norway. I wonder if it
> > had blue plumage?
> >     
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> Almost certainly not.

but, but, but... This parrot is no more, it is deceased, it is an 
ex-parrot...


>  Blue (and green) only evolved after the cockatoo ancestors split from the 
> parakeet/macaw/lorikeet ancestors. But then again, it seems to have evolved 
> convergently in the kakapo, after its ancestors diverged from those of the Kaka 
> and Kea. The most crownward placement of the Danish species would seem to be as 
> sister to all living psittaciforms.
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>
>   

Sigh....

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Neil Taylor "Creo Imaginem Mente"