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Re: Proto-penguins lived with dinosaurs



In the two articles posted here, it does not say that anywhere.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
tiggernut24@yahoo.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Habib" <mhabib5@jhmi.edu>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: Proto-penguins lived with dinosaurs



The article is indeed misleading (though it clears things up a bit if you read through the whole thing). What the authors actually did is use the new Paleocene fossils as _calibration_ points for a molecular phylogeny of extant penguins.


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