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[bud]

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/09/ff_chickensaurus/



Jack Horner thinks this is going to happen, I'm sure it will kinda will make it hard for people who don't believe in evolution, not that the fossil record and modern genetics isn't proof enough already

[darwin dali]

Hm, roasted chickensaurus - yummmmm!

[SennaVille]

I've always wondered what life would be like if dinosaurs hadn't been wiped out. Dinosaurs were reptiles, not the most social species. Would they have developed and become social? Intelligent? I don't think so. The meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs was our friend

Yay, small mammals

[darwin dali]

I've always wondered what life would be like if dinosaurs hadn't been wiped out. Dinosaurs were reptiles, not the most social species. Would they have developed and become social? Intelligent? I don't think so. The meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs was our friend

Yay, small mammals

There's evidence of social behavior, social breeding, etc. And some of them may have been not as dense as others...

[andrew]

I've always wondered what life would be like if dinosaurs hadn't been wiped out. Dinosaurs were reptiles, not the most social species. Would they have developed and become social? Intelligent? I don't think so. The meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs was our friend

Yay, small mammals

If dinosaurs were still wandering around we wouldn't be here.

[darwin dali]

I've always wondered what life would be like if dinosaurs hadn't been wiped out. Dinosaurs were reptiles, not the most social species. Would they have developed and become social? Intelligent? I don't think so. The meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs was our friend

Yay, small mammals

If dinosaurs were still wandering around we wouldn't be here.

They are (well, mostly they fly) and you're still here

[Hammer278]

The crocodile is I believe the closest cousin to the dinosaur...they've seen dinosaurs walking around and now us mere mortals.

Who knows how they'd be...maybe wandering the jungles like lions and tigers nowadays. They have fear as well, so most probably stay away from man's industry.

No doubt celebrities would have T-Rex's caged up in their homes though.

[darwin dali]

The crocodile is I believe the closest cousin to the dinosaur...they've seen dinosaurs walking around and now us mere mortals.

Who knows how they'd be...maybe wandering the jungles like lions and tigers nowadays. They have fear as well, so most probably stay away from man's industry.

No doubt celebrities would have T-Rex's caged up in their homes though.

Most researchers now support the view that birds are a group of theropod dinosaurs that evolved during the Mesozoic Era.

[bud]

There are plenty of fossil specimens coming out of Gobi desert of dinosaurs with preserved feather filaments, since the late 90s. Making paleontologists to rethink the metabolism,social behaviour and physical appearance of Dino's. Mostly as DD said, the Theropod two legged meat eating dinosaurs the ones who are directly related to birds, and in biological terms birds are infact dinosaurs.
This reverse evolution that Jack Horner wishes to accomplish is just making a bird look more like its ancestors before they evolved for flight, longer tail, vertical femur, teeth and ofcourse the unfused hand bone in a birds wing.

Can't wait to see a Dino chicken

[LewEngBridewell]

The crocodile is I believe the closest cousin to the dinosaur...

Komodo Dragons even more so!

[bud]

The crocodile is I believe the closest cousin to the dinosaur...

Komodo Dragons even more so!

Crocodiles are very distant relatives of Dinosaurs, Komodos are Lizards and are even further back in the lineage than Crocodilians.

Think you guys need to read between the lines here, This thread is about Birds being dinosaurs not cousins like Crocodiles

[andrew]

I've always wondered what life would be like if dinosaurs hadn't been wiped out. Dinosaurs were reptiles, not the most social species. Would they have developed and become social? Intelligent? I don't think so. The meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs was our friend

Yay, small mammals

If dinosaurs were still wandering around we wouldn't be here.

They are (well, mostly they fly) and you're still here

Only just. Have you ever been attacked by an over protective herring gull? Big manky begger thems!

Of course, I'm talking about the real big ones. You'd either be eaten or stood on!

[LewEngBridewell]

Oh yes, I do know about birds being very closely related to the dinosaurs. There was a series called Planet Dinosaur which aired on the BBC very recently, which was very good, narrated by actor John Hurt.

It took a close look into various types of dinosaurs which evolved feathers and even looked like birds back then. The raptors are a classic example of such occurrences.

[acosmichippo]

I've always wondered what life would be like if dinosaurs hadn't been wiped out. Dinosaurs were reptiles, not the most social species. Would they have developed and become social? Intelligent? I don't think so. The meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs was our friend

Yay, small mammals

Even if the meteor didn't come along, the ice age would have done the same for most of them - especially the humungous cold-blooded ones.

[LewEngBridewell]

I've always wondered what life would be like if dinosaurs hadn't been wiped out. Dinosaurs were reptiles, not the most social species. Would they have developed and become social? Intelligent? I don't think so. The meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs was our friend

Yay, small mammals

Even if the meteor didn't come along, the ice age would have done the same for most of them - especially the humungous cold-blooded ones.

They were just too big to survive the changes. Some smaller mammals, birds, reptiles and things survived, but the dinosaurs' size went against them.

In the climatic upheaval following the striking of the meteor in the Gulf of Mexico, the planet was shrouded in cold and dark, killing lots of plant life. The massive plant eaters (Sauropods) just couldn't survive on little pickings, and so that spelt doom for the big predators. The scavengers survived off the initial surplus of carcasses, but they soon vanished as well. Despite absolutely dominating the planet longer than anything else, their size was their downfall.