A quick follow-up
There is an excellent intro in Fisher & Lockley's Sea-Birds
which certainly predates this article.  Loon-like birds and
even ostriches were already occupying the Cretaceous - 
ALONG with the therapods!
Good Birding,
Lance
 

--- On Tue, 6/9/09, Janet Millenson <> wrote:


From: Janet Millenson <>
Subject: [MDOSPREY] OT: "Discovery raises new doubts about dinosaur-bird links"
To: 
Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 11:19 AM


From e! Science News today:

"Researchers at Oregon State University have made a fundamental new 
discovery about how birds breathe and have a lung capacity that allows for 
flight -- and the finding means it's unlikely that birds descended from any 
known theropod dinosaurs." Read the news article at 
http://tinyurl.com/leg8y6 .

Very, very interesting... but my parrot will be SO disappointed.

Janet Millenson
Potomac, MD (Montgomery County)

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