Comments on: Leftovers http://themoderatevoice.com/24682/leftovers/ An Internet hub for moderates, centrists, and independents, with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, and right Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:05:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/24682/leftovers/comment-page-1/#comment-165856 DLS Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:36:53 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/entertainment/food/24682/leftovers/#comment-165856 Arms to wings, too, J. Spence (though the special cases became big, ungainly, flightless, and defenseless)...fur (hair) to feathers...<br><br>Why the avian branch off the mammalian main line, who knows. Trial and success, not always error, I suppose. Arms to wings, too, J. Spence (though the special cases became big, ungainly, flightless, and defenseless)…fur (hair) to feathers…

Why the avian branch off the mammalian main line, who knows. Trial and success, not always error, I suppose.

]]> By: JSpencer http://themoderatevoice.com/24682/leftovers/comment-page-1/#comment-165725 JSpencer Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:44:10 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/entertainment/food/24682/leftovers/#comment-165725 Quite interesting. I wonder about the evolution of teeth to beak, which also bring to mind the recent fossil discovery of the turtle with shell development only on the bottom, and also with teeth instead of beak:<br><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE4AP6HX20081126" rel="nofollow">http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUS...</a><br>Now, if someone would only get busy on that time machine so we could check on these things in more detail... Quite interesting. I wonder about the evolution of teeth to beak, which also bring to mind the recent fossil discovery of the turtle with shell development only on the bottom, and also with teeth instead of beak:
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUS...
Now, if someone would only get busy on that time machine so we could check on these things in more detail…

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