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We need to send out the Butterfly signal 

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Well, duh.Animavore wrote:We need to send out the Butterfly signal
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Fossilization is a tricky thing. There may have been (and probably were) many dinosaur species that survived, but which, for some reason, weren't fossilized in sufficient numbers to be discovered by us simians. Some things just don't mineralize as well as others.
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But the beeky ones survived and thrived. There was something about beeks that "worked" for them, I think.Pyrrho wrote:Fossilization is a tricky thing. There may have been (and probably were) many dinosaur species that survived, but which, for some reason, weren't fossilized in sufficient numbers to be discovered by us simians. Some things just don't mineralize as well as others.
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Did you ever read the tips on the best ways to get fossilised in the New Scientist?Pyrrho wrote:Fossilization is a tricky thing. There may have been (and probably were) many dinosaur species that survived, but which, for some reason, weren't fossilized in sufficient numbers to be discovered by us simians. Some things just don't mineralize as well as others.
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When did crocs (200million years) get beaks?Gawdzilla wrote:. . . only the dinosaurs with beaks survived the mass extinction?
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Crocs ain't dinosaurs.AshtonBlack wrote:When did crocs (200million years) get beaks?Gawdzilla wrote:. . . only the dinosaurs with beaks survived the mass extinction?
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That's 'coz your reading history backwards.Devogue wrote:Interesting.
I thought it was just a given.![]()

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maybe it isn't the beakiness as much as the featheryness that was the controlling factor in survival 

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Feathers are obvious, insulation. But were the feathered ones the beaked ones by default?Ghatanothoa wrote:maybe it isn't the beakiness as much as the featheryness that was the controlling factor in survival
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A lot of dinos were feathered. Indeed it now seems quite possible that the very earliest dinos had filament-like 'proto-feathers'.Ghatanothoa wrote:maybe it isn't the beakiness as much as the featheryness that was the controlling factor in survival![]()

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No.Gawdzilla wrote:Feathers are obvious, insulation. But were the feathered ones the beaked ones by default?Ghatanothoa wrote:maybe it isn't the beakiness as much as the featheryness that was the controlling factor in survival

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That's not much help.Horwood Beer-Master wrote:No.Gawdzilla wrote:Feathers are obvious, insulation. But were the feathered ones the beaked ones by default?Ghatanothoa wrote:maybe it isn't the beakiness as much as the featheryness that was the controlling factor in survival
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As I indicated in my previous post, feathers were common among dinosaurs. Including the toothy-ones.Gawdzilla wrote:That's not much help.Horwood Beer-Master wrote:No.Gawdzilla wrote:Feathers are obvious, insulation. But were the feathered ones the beaked ones by default?Ghatanothoa wrote:maybe it isn't the beakiness as much as the featheryness that was the controlling factor in survival
So the feathered ones were not by default the beaked ones.

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Could it be that they were omnivorous and therefore could better survive on whatever was left?
I doubt it was a single trait. It's likely that they were relatively big-brained omnivores with feathers who lived in environments that somewhat protected them somehow, or something like that. Note: I mean that the mix of traits was likely, not that the traits I more or less pulled out of a hat were likely.
I doubt it was a single trait. It's likely that they were relatively big-brained omnivores with feathers who lived in environments that somewhat protected them somehow, or something like that. Note: I mean that the mix of traits was likely, not that the traits I more or less pulled out of a hat were likely.
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