Oldest bird ever discovered explains evolution from dinosaurs

[edhopper]

http://now.msn.com/aurornis-early-bird-fossil-sheds-light-on-evolution-from-dinosaurs?ocid=ansnow11

Scientists discovered this fossil of a 160 million-year-old bird in China. It's called Aurornis, it's the earliest bird species ever found, and it simplifies our understanding of how birds split from dinosaurs and developed powered flight.

[rhett o rick]

1. Discussions of evolution are consider CT. This thread should be locked.

justkidding

[Kurovski]

2. K&R

And a great headline, too.

Whenever I watch robins hunt for grubs, I see little dinosaurs running on skinny dinosaur legs.

[bvar22]

3. After keeping Chickens for 7 years,

...and having the opportunity to observe the ferocity with which a hungry hen will jump on a June Bug, I have absolutely no doubt that I am watching the direct descendant of the T-Rex.

[Fumesucker]

4. We have a lot of geese around here, I see them almost every day when I ride

Right now they're raising goslings and they are very aggressive toward anything that disturbs them, turns out they don't like bicycles although they nearly ignore cars.

There's a large deserted parking lot in an abandoned commercial space I ride in sometimes, last fall I pulled in it and there were literally hundreds of geese just covering it. I flashed back on that old Alfred Hitchcock movie, I have no doubt the geese could have taken me out with ease if they had wanted to.

As it was I practically had to swerve around them, they were remarkably passive compared to this time of year.