02 October, 2012

Dinosaurs

It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this reasoning is sound..Birds, as a group, did descend from dinosaurs and...all 8,600 species of birds living today carry some inheritance from their reptilian ancestors.


(David Raup, Extinction: Bad Genes and Bad Luck)

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