"Alain" <aze### [at] qwertyorg> schreef in bericht 
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> Dinosaurs are NOT reptiles!
> There where reptiles during the dinosaurs era, and there where dinosaurs.
>
> Peoples beleived that dinosaurs where reptiles initialy, but it was proven 
> that it's not the case.
> We now know that dinosaurs where much closer to contemporary birds than 
> they ever where to reptiles.
>
> They where very probably warm blooded, endotherm, or semi-endotherm, while 
> all reptiles are cold-blooded, or exotherm.
>
> Also, the bone structure is very different than that of reptiles.
>
>

Some news from Berkeley. Not the latest, arguably, but still news... :-)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/avians.html

Thomas

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