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The dinosaur is for most people the epitome of extinctness, the prototype of an animal so maladapted to a changing environment that it dies out, leaving fossils but no descendants.
Dinosaur Renaissance
da Il caso Scafroglia
Personaggi originali, Vulvia
When I was a boy, I remember the other kids called them "dinosaur-birds", but they were neither dinosaurs or birds. The first problem is that most people don't know any more about the fossil record than what they've seen in a few plastic pieces in a prehistoric playset. Not only do they typically think that all these things are dinosaurs, they might even think that these are all the fossil forms that are known. They have no idea how rich the fossil record is.
Origine: Da Pterosaurs are Terrible Lizards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_htQ8HJ1cA, YouTube, 3 dicembre 2013
Origine: Citato in Piero Pardini, Citazioni a bordo campo http://www.ubitennis.com/2008/09/07/116570-citazioni_bordo_campo_agosto.shtml, Ubitennis.com, agosto 2008.
Entrambi avevano furcule [altrimenti note come ossa dei desideri], covavano le uova, possedevano ossa cave ed erano ricoperti di piume. Se gli animali come Velociraptor fossero vivi al giorno d'oggi, la nostra prima impressione sarebbe semplicemente quella di uccelli dall'aspetto strano.
The more that we learn about these animals the more we find that there is basically no difference between birds and their closely related dinosaur ancestors like velociraptor. Both have wishbones, brooded their nests, possess hollow bones, and were covered in feathers. If animals like velociraptor were alive today our first impression would be that they were just very unusual looking birds.
Origine: Da Velociraptor had feathers http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070920145402.htm, ScienceDaily, 20 settembre 2007.
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