Dinosaurs of the Air: The Evolution and Loss of Flight in Dinosaurs and Birds By Gregory S. Paul
This information makes the argument for Archeopteryx's ancestors as Aquatic, strong.
Surprising information.
He continues with description of the bird's teeth which sound quite aquatic. It's apparent that if Archeopteryx were not fully utilizing these traits, then they were hereditary.
Look at these wonderful visceral arches hinting at the aquatic ancestry for birds!
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"Frugivore Raptor" and "Vegan Rex" may have confidence in the Dinosaur-Bird myth but any person with a reasonably adequate understanding of the fossil record and how legitimate paleontology functions, can not.
Disciples of Dino-Bird Mythology may choose to believe T. Rex was a conscientious "vegetarian which dined upon an abundant supply of berries."
However, they are not alone. One other well-known group of people who make claim T. Rex was a Vegetarian: CREATIONISTS. They too claim there were no carnivorous diets (death) "before the fall".
And that's all I can say of such silly mythology vs. legitimate science!
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Genesis in the Ancient World
"The Jews integrated into Greek culture around 300 BC. Notably, much of the modern Biblical literature is actually Greek. Enlightened Greek thought becomes apparent in the opening of Genesis. "One of the first evolutionary theories was proposed by Thales of Miletus (640–546 BC) in the province of Ionia on the coast near Greece followed by Anaximander (550 B.C.) who speculated that life evolved from the water; lower forms of life, in a very primitive precursor to evolutionary theory."
Namely this *ouch!*
Evolution and Paleontology in the Ancient World
"...For Anaximander, the world had arisen from an undifferentiated, indeterminate substance, the apeiron. The Earth, which had coalesced out of the apeiron, had been covered in water at one stage, with plants and animals arising from mud. Humans were not present at the earliest stages; they arose from fish. This poem was quite influential on later thinkers, including Aristotle.
Had Anaximander looked at fossils? Did he study comparative fish and human anatomy? Unfortunately, we have no way of knowing what evidence Anaximander used to support his ideas. His theory bears some resemblance to evolutionary theory, but also seems to have been derived from various Greek myths, such as the story of Deucalion and Pyrrha, in which peoples or tribes are born from the Earth or from stones. His concept of the apeiron seems similar to the Tao of Chinese philosophy and religion, and to the "formless and void" Earth of the Hebrew creation account and other creation myths. However, even though Anaximander's ideas drew on the religious and mythical ideas of his time, he was still one of the first to attempt an explanation of the origin and evolution of the cosmos based on natural laws."
(Source, ucmp.berkeley.edu History)
[Sadly, what the site fails to mention is that the oldest known biblical manuscripts date no earlier than around 300 B.C., therefore, Anaximander (610-545 B.C.) could not have based any of his concepts on Biblical Hebrew. However it can be deduced, the Hebrew Genesis account was borrowed from mainstream Greek philosophy.] [The analysis by Harvard and several other University sources are quite impressive: (Scala Naturae of the Bible, Charles Darwin and Ancient Greek Philosophy)]
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