Re: Polly Want a Dinosaur?

[Danvarner@aol.com]

In a message dated 98-11-04 16:22:43 EST, you write:

<< 
 "An inch-long jaw fragment found in Wyoming suggests that parrots 
 were keeping the dinosaurs company in the years before a cosmic 
 collision killed off nearly three-quarters of life on Earth, a researcher 
 says."
 (snip) >>

  I remember being surprised many years ago at the similarity between a
parrot's skull and Oviraptor as illustrated in W.K.Gregory's _Evolution
Emerging_, a set of 2 volumes valuable for the illustrations alone. Also
included is an early reconstruction of a horizontal Tyrannosaurus skeleton.
Dan Varner.