Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber

dasmiller said:
Batman's sidekick was a dinosaur? He really is the coolest hero ever!
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I KNEW someone would say that :) lol ...

I actually thought of using the name "Robin Redbreast" and even looked up the Latin name "Turdus migrators"

... but decided the words 'breast' and 'turd' would just attract more humours replies :)

"Turdus migratorius"
 
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I hope the next big dinosaur movie uses chicken noises instead of the generic roaring that has always been used in the fight scenes. Seeing some giant lizard going "Buk Buk BuKARK" as it rips the flesh from its hapless opponent would be worth it...
 
I remember reading an article about one dinosaur expert proposing that dinos and birds were related (this was even before Jurassic Park), and the skepticism he was dealing with because of that.
 
It's Amber that concerns me. I hope she has recovered. Maybe she'll be on the Jeremy Kyle show one day.
 
alfaniner said:
I remember reading an article about one dinosaur expert proposing that dinos and birds were related (this was even before Jurassic Park), and the skepticism he was dealing with because of that.
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Sounds a bit like the ongoing debate (fight?) between Bakker and Horner.

But there hasn't been any serious dispute about the relationship between birds and dinosaurs for a very long time actually. More along the lines of were they warm blooded and fast like birds? Or cold blooded and slow like the old movies? And were they all warm blooded or only a few?

Ironically feathers evidence means almost certainly those dinosaurs were warm blooded and fast. The insulation being the primary factor. If you must spend energy maintaining temperature, you sure don't want it radiating away because of no insulation!

Thought you might like watching this

 
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I was researching paleontologist O.C. Marsh for unrelated reasons, and was surprised to find he was given credit as one of the first to point out the link between birds and dinosaurs, in 1877! His rival was Thomas Huxley who may have said the same thing.

I don't know much about the history of dinosaur clasification, but that surprised me. I thought it moved in more of a straight line, but apparently the dinosaur-bird link was big in the late 19th Century, then it died out in the early 20th Century, then it came back in the modern day.

I looked into it more.
From http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/c/chatterjee-birds.html
The fact that theropods and birds always walked bipedally is intriguing and may indicate a common evolutionary history, Huxley argued. Bipedalism is a rare evolutionary event in the history of vertebrates and requires a great deal of balancing and coordination. In birds we see the culmination of this coordination and proprioception. Marsh (1877, 1880) embraced Huxley's proposal of a theropod-bird link when he described Cretaceous toothed birds such as Hesperornis and Ichthyornis.
In 1926, however, Gerhard Heilmann (1926) swept away the hypothesis of the theropod ancestry of birds in his influential book The Origin of Birds...

Really?
 
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