Re: paleonet Origin of birds

[Dinogeorge@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 4/13/2005 4:04:19 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
tijawi@yahoo.com writes:

>>This is plain nonsense.  Most non-dinosaurian archosaurs  were obligate 
quadrupeds or (at best) facultative bipeds: crocodilomorphs,  lagosuchians, 
rausiuchians, phytosaurs, proterosuchians, etc etc.  These  are the taxa that are 
used as outgroups.  Your statement makes absolutely  no sense.<<
 
Look, we've been through this over and over again, in countless forums  
(fora). You just don't get it, and I'm not going to beat my head against the  wall 
any further. Read the current issue of Nature for an article on ancestral  
crocodylian endothermy. Study the fossil of the bipedal crocodilian  Hallopus.