Re: ROM Feathered Dinosaur Confusion

[Mike Taylor <mike@miketaylor.org.uk>]

> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:57:22 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Danvarner@aol.com
> 
> In case you are not  monitoring the Palaeoblog website:
> 
> http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_strauss/20050812.html  

The interesting thing about this is its assumptions:

        Czerkas [...] thinks one is seeing a desire on the
        part of many conservative paleontologists to
        pigeonhole the world of bird/dinosaur relations into a
        "birds are dinosaurs" framework -- in the face of the
        new Chinese evidence that obviously contradicts that
        theory.

And:

        Mark, my words, next year there will be findings from
        somewhere else that support the conservative ROM
        paleontologists over Mr. Czerkas.

In other words, the dinosaur origin of birds is now regarded iun the
mainstream news as a "conservative" interpretation.

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