... er.....Screamers _did_ evolve in Spec, remember, they are true anseriformes. They are actually the closest sister group of magpie geese. If you wish to...
... Which is perfectly okay, since Mergansers are as much fresh-water as salt. I think it's a good idea. Also, Ray, Could you please make a Gorgoose that...
... I suggested Gastorniformes to take the screamers place because I thought having something slightly different would be fun. ... Karl has suggested having...
... For the record, I still haven't read this essay. I have surprisingly much else to do. ... Correct. ... What? When did they stop being the sister-group of...
... lifted from wikipedia (As yet, no citation) ... know ... closest ... Blah-blah-blah (yawns) ... (bows down and worships David) All hail the Spellchecker! ...
... If Ichthyornithes and Hesperornithes are so efficient keeping other birds from taking aquatic niches, then why ebergs and penguins even exist? Because we...
... Where? ... They don't seem to have done so. *Neogaeornis* and *Polarornis* were not hesperorniths....
David Marjanovic
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Jan 3, 2009 7:17 pm
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... Erm, that's not outright ruled out by your quote (see the top of this message), but... the only straightforward reading of "pseudodontorns being ...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 3, 2009 7:24 pm
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... (...the ... HE, I ... Cretaceous) ... If I'm not mistaken only some tarsometarsi were found. True, they do suggest it might had been a swimmer, but how do...
... When I suggested that flightless hespies could become extinct at the Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum (thus making the current flightless forms descendents...
Maybe I should leave puns for Emile. Anyway since we are not here for post counts I'll just put my comments in one long post. First things first: David, I...
... The fact that I've been a lot more busy in these holidays than I expected. Apologies all around. I'll be back in Paris tomorrow evening, so maybe on the...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 6, 2009 4:59 pm
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... To be precise: I'll leave Vienna late this evening, sleep in the train, arrive in Paris tomorrow shortly before noon, and go almost straight to the ...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 6, 2009 5:16 pm
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... Cool, but do we have any critters that won't scream "generic dinosaur fanpage" at first glance? It'd have to be different, but well, most of the dinos...
... Ornithischians indeed, there's little more clear than the forefoot prints shown in the last linked file. Coupling that with Senter's analysis of...
... dinosaur fanpage" at first ... follow generally recognizable ... Somehow the snappy remark "That's not my problem!" repetitiously comes to mind ;-) Well,...
... touch ... Thank you for taking the time to comment on this :-) I'm altering the text at home as I agree with most of your comments. I would rather this'd...
... Fair enough, which is why I suggested the logos be swapped out every now and then. Have fun. ... Glad to hear the suggestion has merit, I had to put a game...
... Actually it could.... if males suffered from a form of musth perhaps? If they even so much as went as the giraffe necking style of fighting or just a...
... Fine, but there's another reason why goat crap does the least damage, too! What is the diameter of a sauropod rectum and thus of a pellet?!?...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 7, 2009 9:14 pm
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... I might start reading this weekend. What position does Senter assume for the shoulder girdles, BTW? A lot hinges on that. ... Even more to read... ... That...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 7, 2009 9:28 pm
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... You're making an error of assumption there. Goats don't crap out a string of beads, like frog spawn. There's a reason their craps are called "goat...
... damage, too! ... sphincter muscles and they ... to fly up their butt. So ... they have to pass and ... compacted in the colon ... still break apart on ... ...