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From: jc@cdx39.UUCP (John Chambers)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: evolution, parthogenesis, ad nauseum.
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Date: Mon, 22-Dec-86 17:08:48 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 22 17:08:48 1986
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Summary: class? order? family?

> >>Turkeys belongs to a class of dinosaur??? (P.M Koloc)
> 
> Sorry to break the news, but birds and dinosaurs *are* more closely related
> than dinosaurs and present-day reptiles. 
> 
Hmmm...I thought that birds had been classified as a suborder  of
the dinosaurs, not a class.  Anyone out there know what the official 
taxonomy really is these days?  Like, draw me a cladogram, perhaps,
and label the 'class' and 'order' levels.

It is interesting to hit people with the 'fact' that dinosaurs 
didn't die out; that they probably ate one for Thanksgiving.
I wonder when the media will hear the news.

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