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Hello all.
I don't want to open another whole can of worms here, but
there has been a lot of discussion in the past as to which group is closer to
modern birds, dromaeosaurs or _Archaeopteryx_. I have watched a lot of the
arguments going back and forth, but one question (which is really the most
obvious) does not seem (to me, I could have missed something) to have been
addressed.
The question is this: *Are* there any features shared by both
_Archaeopteryx_ and modern birds, *other* than those connected with arboreality
and/or flight, that are *not* also shared by dromaeosaurs?
Please fill me in.
Thanks!
-Grant
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Grant Harding High school student/amateur paleontologist granth@cyberus.ca Visit Grant Harding's Dinosaur Destination at http://www.cyberus.ca/~sharding/grant/ "...I suspect he actually has a subspecies of _Stenonychosaurus_, though I haven't decided for sure...small Triassic carnivore--two meters from pes to acetabulum. In point of fact, a rather ordinary theropod..." -from Crichton's _The Lost World_ |