Evolution What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters

Dinosaurs Evolve—and Fly 275 popular movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which was partially filmed near the local- ity where ...

276 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! Dinosaurs Are Alive! And if the whole hindquarters, from the ilium to the toes, of a half-ha ...

Dinosaurs Evolve—and Fly 277 dinosaurs that could be related to birds had clavicles or collarbones, yet all birds have their cla ...

278 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! the creationists, who attack one tiny detail of the subject without addressing all the rest ...

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280 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! bones, or within the ankle (mesotarsus). The first row of ankle bones thus has little functi ...

Dinosaurs Evolve—and Fly 281 and in no way resembles the hand of Archaeopteryx. In short, every time Gish, Sarfati, and the othe ...

282 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! only transitional dinosaur-bird fossil, it would be sufficient, but it is not alone any more ...

Dinosaurs Evolve—and Fly 283 feathers (figs. 12.1, 12.10, 12.11, and 12.12). These include incredible complete specimens such as ...

284 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! archosaurs as well, especially pterosaurs). Feathers, then, did not evolve for flight but we ...

Dinosaurs Evolve—and Fly 285 (fig. 12.14A), it had the primitive sickle-like claws on the hind feet, the long bony tail, teeth, ...

286 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! bones that reinforce the shoulder, which improved flight. They also are the first birds with ...

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288 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! If this welter of new bird fossils and anatomical characters seems a bit overwhelming, your ...

Dinosaurs Evolve—and Fly 289 Ostrom, J. H. 1974. Archaeopteryx and the origin of flight. Quarterly Review of Biology 49:27–47. O ...

FIGURE 13.1. The transformation from primitive synapsids like Ophiacodon and the fin-backed Dimetrodon to the predatory gorgonop ...

13 Mammalian Explosion From Amniote to Synapsid to Mammals Of all the great transitions between major structural grades within v ...

FIGURE 13.2. Skeletons of the various transitional fossils among the synapsids. (A) The very primitive early Permian “pelycosaur ...

Mammalian Explosion 293 As we move up the cladogram through the diverse groups of synapsids (fig. 13.3), more and more mammalian ...

FIGURE 13.3. The evolution of the synapsid skulls from primitive pelycosaurs through therapsids and cynodonts to true mammals. ( ...