Date:         Fri, 14 Jun 2002 07:27:33 -0400
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From:         "S. Hoffmann" <hoffmany@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Subject:      Re: "Birds are dinosaurs"?
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Instead of "eating like a bird", we'd be "eating like a dinosaur"!
People without responsibilities would be "free as a dinosaur"! A dummy
would be a "dinosaurbrain"! What fun!
S. Hoffmann
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janet Millenson" <janet@TWOCROWS.COM>
To: <MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 10:18 PM
Subject: [MDOSPREY] "Birds are dinosaurs"?


> A relative phoned to tell me that in the book "Discovering Dinosaurs
in the
> American Museum of Natural History" (1995, by Mark Norell, Lowell
Dingus,
> and Eugene Gaffney), birds are described as a TYPE of dinosaur -- not
merely
> as DESCENDED from dinosaurs -- and the extinct critters whose bones
are in
> museums are referred to as "non-avian dinosaurs." The Bee Hummingbird
is
> referred to as "the smallest dinosaur."
>
> I gather that this classification scheme has moved from the "crackpot
> theory" end of the scientific scale closer to the "dominant paradigm"
end.
> Could someone knowledgeable about taxonomy please comment?
>
> Sure, I'm willing to accept that my pet parrot is the
> great-great-great-whatever of a T. Rex -- she's definitely got that
"rule
> the Earth" mind-set. But imagine if this new nomenclature becomes
commonly
> accepted:
>
> ...We'd be shopping at the Wild Dinosaur Center for dinosaur feeders
and
> dinosaur seed.
> ...We'd need to buy a "Guide to the Avian Dinosaurs of North America"
to
> bring along on our dinosaur-watching field trips.
> ...The ABA would change its name to the AADA (American Avian Dinosaur
> Association).
> ...MOS would now stand for Maryland Ornithosaurian Society (gee,
that's
> actually easier to pronounce!).
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Janet Millenson
> Potomac, MD
> janet@twocrows.com
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Look at the birds!" -- Pascal the parrot
>
>
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