Dinos!

Saw the Feathered Dinosaurs show at the ROM on Saturday. The ROM is backing the "birds are a surviving branch of the dinosauria" position, which I understand is still a little controversial (some people argue that the similarities are superficial and the result of convergent evolution and that the arrangement of digits in the forelimbs is different between birds and dinos, but I'm not totally convinced by that). The ROM goes into skeletal evolution and seems to make a pretty good argument from my layman's POV.

Curiously, what probably struck me most was the taxidermy mount of the Fairy Pigeon (?) (bred to express the recessive trait of feathers on the legs), as a demonstration that the genes for extremely feathered legs was still in birds from the time of the (?)dromeosaur(four-winged bird/dinosaur).

Now I have an idea for a chapbook: Swan Saurian Lake

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