On 04/05/2010 08:47 PM, Alain wrote:

>> On 04/05/2010 02:15 AM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
>>> Warp<war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:
>>>>    I don't know why exactly, but they look like dinosaur eggs.
>>>
>>> Technically, they *are* dinosaur eggs.  The evidence that modern
>>> birds descended
>>> from dinosaurs is pretty solid.
>>
>>    I don't think you can call them dinosaur eggs even technically. They
>> are bird eggs, not dinosaur eggs. Even if birds are descendants if
>> dinosaurs that doesn't mean birds *are* dinosaurs.
> 
> At least once, a bird expert confused some dinosaurs skull for those of
> actual focillised birds... And the similitudes are not only in the skulls.

  I didn't say that birds are not descendants of dinosaurs or that there
aren't similarities. I just said that just because birds are descendants
of dinosaurs (well, more specifically, from the dinosaur suborder of
theropods) doesn't mean that birds *are* dinosaurs.

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