Re: Quo vadis, T. rex? [long]

[Jeffrey Martz <martz@holly.ColoState.EDU>]

> This is really a fairly pointless argument, as the presence or absence of 
> feathers in one dinosaur or another changes their relationships not a 
> bit.  Our best knowledge to date is that birds are dinosaurs, and whether 
> or not other dinosaurs had feathers or not is irrelevant.

     We've haven't been arguing about the phylogenetic relationships of 
dinosaurs and birds.  We've been tallking about whether birds derived  
enough in regard to physiology, metabolism, and lifestyle to warrent being 
called something different.  When you get right down to it, its a totally 
subjective argument and theres probably not much more we can do with it. 

LN Jeff