Birds - Are they descendants of dinosaurs?

[Deck]

I have heard this claimed, but is it true? Also, weren't all dinosaurs cold-blooded?

[Noweia]

No way of proving it but it is now thought that dinosaurs were warm blooded.

[eupraxia]

The skeletol structure was the same, or so I was led to understand. Especially for the up right dinosaurs.

[Clanad]

The problem is, as with other attempts to prove speciation, there are no intermediate forms. Nothing has been located that is a little bit dinosaur and a little bit bird.  The examination of the geologic column is rather complete with millions of examples of fossils so if any intermdeiate forms exist, they should have been exposed by now, expecially since the fossils of intermediate forms should be plentiful if macro evolution were indeed a fact...

[Marvin84]

I know that this is going to sound silly.... but here goes....

Watch Jurassic Park, in the beginning they were explaining that alot of the dinosaurs have 'birdlike' traits in their structure....and it was entertaining!! :-)

[dave_c]

Clanad, Didn't some paleontologists discover the remains of some form intermediate creature in China?

[spudqueen]

dave-c - thought that had been exposed as a forgery, putting 2 different fossils together to make it look like one

[curragh]

did you know birds feathers are acttulay highly developed scales?