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Re: theropod tongues

Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:
> 
> You could say that dinosaurs are bird ancestors, but it's more productive to
> turn this around and consider birds as ancestral to dinosaurs. Not the modern
> birds of the Cenozoic, of course, but gliding and flying birds similar to but
> more primitive than _Archaeopteryx_. Among their secondarily flightless
> descendants are all the theropod dinosaurs.

_ALL_ the theropods?  Even _Eoraptor_ and _Herrerasaurus_?  And the
markedly un-bird-like _Coelophysis_?

-- JSW