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Re:How Dinosaurs Shrank and Became Birds by tdyen on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @01:52AM (#9650790)
Why is 10 million years a blip in evolutionary time when you see the massive chamges that can happen on Islands in 100s of years?
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Re:How Dinosaurs Shrank and Became Birds by Synaesthesia on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @02:39AM (#9650911)
You can see some chang s over 100's of years. Nothing as dramatic as this. I wouldn't call 10 million years quite a blip though. But dinosaurs were around for almost 200 million years! Some animals have not evolved much in hundreds of millions of years, like sharks and crocodiles.
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Re:How Dinosaurs Shrank and Became Birds by bsder on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @03:34AM (#9651106)
Yeah, it's a remarkable thing that Homo Sapiens is closer in time to Tyrannosaurus Rex than T. Rex is in time to Stegosaurus.
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