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p2pnet.net OT News:- Fossil’s bird brain causes feathers to fly.
The above headline from Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald centers on the discovery that, "Flying dinosaur may exist," as China’s Xinha state news agency sums it up, begging the question as to whether or not a flock of antique Archaeopteryx is/are currently bombing around in China’s air-space.
Anyhow, "Archaeopteryx could fly after all," says a story in Canada’s Globe & Mail, going on:
"A close look at the brain of archaeopteryx, the earliest known bird, has produced new evidence that the crow-sized creature could fly. Many experts already believed that archaeopteryx, which lived some 150 million years ago, could fly rather than just glide or run on the ground. But Angela Milner, co-author of the new study, said debate on the question has lingered to some extent."
The G&M quotes Milner as saying, “The shape of the brain lobes and the pattern of the brain lobes compares very closely to what we see in modern flying birds" and from that she inferred the brain was "well-equipped for flying".
Is this somehow linked to The Register’s bird-brain logo?
Just asking.
August 5th, 2004 at 9:06 pm
A brain “well equipped for flying” … mmmm …. What exactly does that mean. At the very least, a close examination of Mr. Hatch’s brain might prove very interesting. Why the archaeopteryx may not even be extinct after all …