Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> 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.

you, you... ape! :P

Post a reply to this message