Parrot Fossil 55 Million Years Old Discovered In Scandinavia (It's Just Restin'.)
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Parrot Fossil 55 Million Years Old Discovered In Scandinavia (It's Just Restin'.)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080516123153.htm
Gabby's immediate ancestors were alive only about 10 million years after non-avian dinosaurs ate the big one.
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Sweet! I wish there were parrots in the norther Hemispheres now!
There is one species that lives in Mexico and used to live in the pine forests of Arizona: the thick-billed parrot. The United States hunted the other species, the Carolina parakeet, to extinction.
It was closely related to sun, Jenday and gold-capped conures and resembled the gold-cap superficially.
Gold-capped Conure:
Carolina Parakeet:
Thick-billed parrot:
On edit: This is the most life-like Carolina parakeet I've ever seen. I wonder if it's real or photoshopped:
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OMG there was actually a Norwegian Blue?
This means the prophecy has come true! The Norwegian Blue's existence was predicted decades before it was found! Hail the new messiah John Cleese - JC.
WAKEY WAKEY PARROOOOOTTTTT!!!!!!!
Well, now you've stunned 'im.
It had to be done.
With apologies to Gabby:
It doesn't matter to fundies, you could find a ton of trilobites and dump them on their doorstep and they would still say god exists and that the earth is only 10,000 years old. OH, AND ABORTION IS MURDER! DON'T SPANK YOUR MONKEY!
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Yeah, I know. I get excited by new discoveries like these and have to share them...even with fundies. My excitement doth boil over. To her credit, my mother has been tolerating my enthusiasm. I'm terribly excited about the bird-dinosaur connection. My next drawing project is Microraptor gui (which is probably the same animal as Microraptor zhaoianus and since zhaoianus was named first, the name will probably change, as well).
For some time I've been wondering about the evolutionary beginnings of parrots, so I was pretty stoked to read this article. Apparently, parrots been around for quite a long time--much longer than was previously believed. 55 million years...wow! Homo sapiens has only been around for 200,000 years. The Homo line has been around for--what?--five million? Very cool.
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I've read that there is some evidence that primate remains have been found that date back to around the time of the dinosaur extinction event.
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