Re: Polly Want a Dinosaur?

[MKIRKALDY@aol.com]

ABC News at:
http://www.abcnews.com/sections/science/DailyNews/parrot981104.html
has an interesting and amusing interpretation of the parrot/dino
assignation.

"Ruffles Some Scientific Feathers 
A Parrot Squawks Amid Dinos" 
By Christine Humphreys
ABCNEWS.com
"Nov. 4 ? Picture a drooling, snarling Tyrannosaurus rex, preparing to 
rip into its next kill.   An ancient parrot that once lived among the
dinosaurs 
in Wyoming may have looked like a modern-day macaw. Now picture a 
parrot perched on the shoulder of the seven-ton beast. Pretty comical, 
right? "

Perhaps having one's own parrot was a Cretaceous status symbol/
established pecking order.

Mary
mkirkaldy@aol.com