Re: Alternative origins of birds

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 2:56 PM
Subject: Alternative origins of birds (humor) (was RE: birds DID NOT evolve
from therapods)


> Some of us have joked about a comic symposium for SVP called "Anything But
> Dinosaurs: Alternative Hypotheses to Bird Origins".  [...] Other
alternatives were
> turtles (present in the Late Triassic, and thus older than birds; have
> modified cervicals; have toothless beaks; not dinosaurs)

These are the reasons why Haeckel and apparently many of his contemporaries
(middle 19th century) _really_ thought that and drew their family trees that
way. Boo! No prize for that plagiat! ;-)