20 January, 2005, BBC News: Cretaceous duck ruffles feathersArkiveret 21. februar 2006 hos Wayback Machine Citat: "...Fossil remains of a bird that lived 70 million years ago appear to belong to a relative of modern ducks and geese..."This is basically an unidentifiable bundle of bones," Alan Feduccia, a bird expert from the University of North Carolina, US, said...And now all of a sudden it's a modern duck..."
11 July 2006, Big dinosaurs 'had warmer blood'Arkiveret 12. april 2019 hos Wayback Machine Citat: "...The bigger a dinosaur was, the warmer its blood...smallest dinosaurs had temperatures of around 25C, close to environmental temperatures...biggest dinosaurs – had a body temperature of just over 40C...Most animals cannot tolerate body temperatures of above 45C, so Apatosaurus is both near the upper limit..."
University of California, Berkeley: Are Birds Really Dinosaurs?Arkiveret 6. august 2003 hos Wayback Machine Citat: "...In fact, the evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of birds being the descendants of a maniraptoran dinosaur...Some researchers today do not agree that dinosaurs gave rise to birds, and are working to falsify this theory, but so far the evidence for the theory has swamped their efforts...."
dinohunters.com: MicroraptorArkiveret 9. juni 2009 hos Wayback Machine Citat: "...Microraptor zhaoianus...The discovery of a 130-million-year-old fossil of a feathered dinosaur provides dramatic evidence that birds evolved from the ancient reptiles, according to new research...Theropod dinosaurs and birds share about 100 anatomical features, including a wishbone, swiveling wrists and three forward-pointing toes. Norell said dromaeosaurs were theropod dinosaurs thought to be most closely related to birds..."
dinohunters.com: MicroraptorArkiveret 9. juni 2009 hos Wayback Machine Citat: "...Microraptor zhaoianus...The discovery of a 130-million-year-old fossil of a feathered dinosaur provides dramatic evidence that birds evolved from the ancient reptiles, according to new research...Theropod dinosaurs and birds share about 100 anatomical features, including a wishbone, swiveling wrists and three forward-pointing toes. Norell said dromaeosaurs were theropod dinosaurs thought to be most closely related to birds..."
University of California, Berkeley: Are Birds Really Dinosaurs?Arkiveret 6. august 2003 hos Wayback Machine Citat: "...In fact, the evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of birds being the descendants of a maniraptoran dinosaur...Some researchers today do not agree that dinosaurs gave rise to birds, and are working to falsify this theory, but so far the evidence for the theory has swamped their efforts...."
20 January, 2005, BBC News: Cretaceous duck ruffles feathersArkiveret 21. februar 2006 hos Wayback Machine Citat: "...Fossil remains of a bird that lived 70 million years ago appear to belong to a relative of modern ducks and geese..."This is basically an unidentifiable bundle of bones," Alan Feduccia, a bird expert from the University of North Carolina, US, said...And now all of a sudden it's a modern duck..."
11 July 2006, Big dinosaurs 'had warmer blood'Arkiveret 12. april 2019 hos Wayback Machine Citat: "...The bigger a dinosaur was, the warmer its blood...smallest dinosaurs had temperatures of around 25C, close to environmental temperatures...biggest dinosaurs – had a body temperature of just over 40C...Most animals cannot tolerate body temperatures of above 45C, so Apatosaurus is both near the upper limit..."
