RE: 2 news items ...

[evelyn sobielski <koreke77@yahoo.de>]

--- Janet m vandenburgh <van02@cox.net> schrieb:

> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330048,00.html
> FOXNEWS.COM HOME > SCITECH 
>        
> Origin of Birds Debated
> Friday, February 08, 2008
> 
> By Clara Moskowitz
> Dinosaurs are living birds, nearly all scientists
> agree, but a debate still
> continues about when that first early bird glided or
> flew into the Mesozoic
> scene.

And what if there 5 closely related but independently
volant "first birds" giving rise to at least a limited
diversity of "birds"? 

The question as usually phrased works if the smallest
clade containing Archie and _Passr domesticus_
contains neither _Confuciusornis_, nor
_Iberomesornis_, nor _Sapeornis_ - and if Archie
hadn't been found as early as it was, one might
habitually add _Dalianraptor_, _Jixiangornis_ et al.
If this assumption is not correct, all bets are off.


Eike


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