http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2009/09/25/feathers-before-archaeopteryx/ Where Paleontology Meets Pop Culture Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:16:26 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2009/09/25/feathers-before-archaeopteryx/comment-page-1/#comment-1141 Tyrannosaurus Suffered From Bird Disease | Dinosaur Tracking Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:48:09 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=2022#comment-1141 [...] While paleontologists cannot be sure that the damage done to Tyrannosaurus was caused by the same species of Trichomonas, at the very least the study suggests that they were susceptible to a close relative of the modern organism and that this “avian” disease was already present over 65 million years ago. If this hypothesis is true, it is yet another line of evidence that links coelurosaurs closely to birds, even if Tyrannosaurus was more evolutionarily distant from birds than some of its “raptor” relatives. [...] [...] While paleontologists cannot be sure that the damage done to Tyrannosaurus was caused by the same species of Trichomonas, at the very least the study suggests that they were susceptible to a close relative of the modern organism and that this “avian” disease was already present over 65 million years ago. If this hypothesis is true, it is yet another line of evidence that links coelurosaurs closely to birds, even if Tyrannosaurus was more evolutionarily distant from birds than some of its “raptor” relatives. [...]

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2009/09/25/feathers-before-archaeopteryx/comment-page-1/#comment-1135 cromercrox Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:08:18 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=2022#comment-1135 Thank you, thank you, thank you for not using the term 'missing link'. Thank you, thank you, thank you for not using the term ‘missing link’.

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