Well in a way I was pretty much expecting something like this to turn up. Dinosaurs are indeed a strange mixture that have tell tale signs of both reptilious and bird traits that make them related to both families, much more related to the bird side, obviously in respects to this new find.
This is a most facinating discovery indeed! They have rumored to go on saying in USA Today that the next closest living relative of the T-Rex after the Chicken is the Frog, and after that, the Newt. I found it very curious those last two relations are amphibians. We know of the close relationship between reptile and amphibian, but after this much dino evolution? Something rather curious is a foot here. Not to imply that the dinosaurs were infact like amphibians or anything. (That'd just be obsurd.) But after looking at all of the different traits, hollow bones and quick growth rate, bird related, structure of bones and overall design of the dinosaurs (including the rare find of fossilized skin), reptile related, the possibility of dinosaurs, especially the predators, were warm blooded creatures which is related to mamals and also apparent in birds. All these different mish mosh of traits leads me to a theory... maybe its impossible to class a dinosaur as any specific animal type. Perhaps, when this many unique traits plagues an animal, perhaps it is safe to give it a class of its own.
I'm going to sound like a quack for saying this, but what if dinosaurs were not solely reptile, or solely bird related. Maybe the very definition of a dinosaur should be in its own class. Perhaps it fits. Fish, Reptile, Mammal, Amphibian, Bird, and Dinosaur. Crack pot theorist out.
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Well in a way I was pretty much expecting something like this to turn up. Dinosaurs are indeed a strange mixture that have tell tale signs of both reptilious and bird traits that make them related to both families, much more related to the bird side, obviously in respects to this new find. This is a most facinating discovery indeed! They have rumored to go on saying in USA Today that the next closest living relative of the T-Rex after the Chicken is the Frog, and after that, the Newt. I found it very curious those last two relations are amphibians. We know of the close relationship between reptile and amphibian, but after this much dino evolution? Something rather curious is a foot here. Not to imply that the dinosaurs were infact like amphibians or anything. (That'd just be obsurd.) But after looking at all of the different traits, hollow bones and quick growth rate, bird related, structure of bones and overall design of the dinosaurs (including the rare find of fossilized skin), reptile related, the possibility of dinosaurs, especially the predators, were warm blooded creatures which is related to mamals and also apparent in birds. All these different mish mosh of traits leads me to a theory... maybe its impossible to class a dinosaur as any specific animal type. Perhaps, when this many unique traits plagues an animal, perhaps it is safe to give it a class of its own. I'm going to sound like a quack for saying this, but what if dinosaurs were not solely reptile, or solely bird related. Maybe the very definition of a dinosaur should be in its own class. Perhaps it fits. Fish, Reptile, Mammal, Amphibian, Bird, and Dinosaur. Crack pot theorist out.