Let us begin by establishing the following facts as true: – I am not a monkey’s uncle, yet, in a certain way, I am....
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Birds are a subset of dinosaurs (See: Honey, I Shrunk the Dinosaurs. Prior to the extinction of all of the other dinosaurs, resulting from...
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My knowledge of dinosaurs started and stopped with Jurassic Park (the movie, not the theme park), Patrick’s Dinosaurs, a charming book my daughter read in grade school,...
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There is a fantastic paper just out in Science: “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea...
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It’s always good to be reminded that when you are looking at birds you are actually looking at dinosaurs. And xkcd is excellent at...
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Most of the time when we think of birds, we think of the things that make them birds, and not the things that make...
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