I guess it comes as no surprise that I’m not one who supposes that dinosaurs evolved from birds, or vice versa, but this recent news story made me think… man… I’m glad there’s no flock o’ tyrannosauri flying through the air… busting power lines and destroying things with mega droppings, and preying on… everything!
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101041025-725105,00.html
Artist’s rendering.
… and flying over my freshly washed car … 
Will O’Ban
And I thought this thread was going to be about Marc Bolan in a feather boa!
Polly wanna side of beef?
I’m curious, why not?
Okay… maybe it does come as a surprise… either way… 
I’m still curious, however. While I believe that the disappearance of the Dinosaur wasn’t because they all evolved into winging behemouths, the evolutionary record demonstrates that some animals were well along their way toward feathered flight, and recent fossil discovies of animals previously thought to be scaly have shown clear images of feathered aspects to their fossized anatomies…all in all, pretty cool stuff…that is, if you’re in to paleontology.
Time to re-release Jurassic Park, with shots of the T. Rex preening its feathers in between trashing land-rovers.
For a long time, I just accepted the theory of evolution as gospel (pun intended), but now I’m actually not so sure I believe in it, at least not in the same way.
why on earth is there a knot it it’s tail???
To remind him he is a bird perhaps…?
Slan,
D.
I reckon that’s just how they drawed feathered dinosaurs back in the early 1400’s.
While I do not support the theory of evolution, I do encourage the trashing of land rovers.
Theories are for sissies… 
I believe in the law of adaptation.
It’s not as simple as that…
…so…um…Walden, sir, why the ‘no dinobird’ stance…still…um…curious.
All I got from the link was a Circuit City ad banner touting the return of the five hour special. Nice to know. I imagine I’ll have to remember that.
As for feathered dinosauri, I recall the first fossil of one discovered in China. Totally set me into a new paradigm; I can’t look at a bird now without musing about their lineage --theorised, to be sure-- or saying, “More roast dinosaur?” at Thanksgiving. Even more interesting is that the line that gave rise to avians did indeed include not only T. Rex, but other predatory tough customers such as velociraptors, all of which had skeletal structures very much in common with modern birds.
I’ll have to try that. We will also be offering tofusaur.
…I’m thinking rack of Rex, with a nice garlic dip would be nice…sans feathers of course>