Dinosaur Breathed Like a Modern Bird

It may have breathed like a bird, but at that size, it sure didn't eat like one!

<"....much like....helping to explain.... likely had feathers....">

There evidently have been dinosaurs.

They did not evolve into any entirely different species.

Adaptation sure, cross-species no.

All attempts at cross-species are failures.

Attempts at near-species mating almost always produces sterile hybrids.

There is no definitive proof of evolution of any kind.

Kind Regards....

"There is no definitive proof of evolution of any kind."

Ahhh...and none against it, either, that I'm aware of.

Hello EnviroMan

Yes there is.

The fact that you, others and myself are able to grasp abstract concepts, have moral standards, and are able to foresee conclusions from small evidence proves that neither you, others, nor myself had evolution in our ancestral line.

Apart from the above, there has never been found any "missing link" where one species changed into another species.

Now before you get all upset, and say that Chimpanzees, jellyfish, a snail, an elephant and a cabbage all share some genetic code, I agree that we do share many common parts of that genetic code.

There is a simple, efficient and elegant reason for sharing genetic code in a complete ecological system.

If there were no sharing of genetic code segments, then there would, for instance, no method of incorporating food elements into our bodily systems, to make muscle, bone, brain, tendons, and all the hundreds of billions of integrated parts which make up you, other persons or myself.

No parts could be recycled.

Short term effect: terrible stink from rotting carcasses and plants.

Long-term effect: a sterile and toxic world.

Aren't you grateful it was carefully designed, and you are not a monkey's uncle.

Kind Regards, from Zealandia.

hmmmmm......there is an avenue of thought that subscribes to the idea of separate organisms living (and becoming part of a whole) in a symbiotic structure. Our own biological map, for example, might have once been individual organic lifeforms.

hi duck

pretty deep there. there is also a theory that life forms evolved to make good hosts for bacteria. after all, we each have billions of them inside of us, and they are very happy about it.

good answer, i agree

Mine have me well trained.....

How many steps of adaptation does it take for a species to differentiate to the point where they can no longer interbreed and bear young. The ancestors of the horse and the burro and the zebra were once just one type of animal. These can interbreed, but the offspring are sterile. Other animals have been found to be related, but have changed so much that they cannot even interbreed.

Some dinosaurs changed to have feathers and warm blood and some grew hair and got warm blood. Over a long period of time the descendants of just one pair of them could change in many different ways as they adapted to different conditions. As they changed they could no longer interbreed, not even to produce sterile offspring, and thus became separate species.

A favorite quote, "Without God there is no evolution, because that is how He made all these animals." Don't remember who wrote it or something very like it, but it fits in with what I believe, that Science is the study of how God did it.

dinosaurs are not extinct. chickens are dinosaurs.

And they taste like T. rex...

enviroman,

had not thought about them tasting good. perhaps that is the real reason that the great dinosaur extinction came about, they tasted so good????

I have my doubts - they were all gone long before there were people. But I suspect they must have tasted like a cross between chicken and iguana.