Nature: Archy was bird brain

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The team believe that Archaeopteryx had enlarged brain regions for vision and movement control, similar to modern-day birds. Its inner ear structure, which helped to control balance, was also bird-like and its brain to body size-ratio resembled that of today's feathered fliers. Such attributes are not found in animals that do not take to the skies.

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"This shows that Archaeopteryx was more bird-like than we thought," says Larry Witmer, who studies the evolution of flight at Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. The birds had a keen sense of vision and the movement and balance control needed for coordinated, controlled flight.

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The full story at Flying dinosaur had 'bird brain' | Nature

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Short Subjects? I would have put it there myself, but adminmoose has been very strict recently, so I daren't!

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It flies.So is it simply an unintellegent designed bird or a Rube Goldberg dino?

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

is tree dweller -- squirrels have larger brains that equal wieight rats and have similar enlargements to the visual and balance areas to enable their arboreal behavior (as do ... primates?)

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Lindum,But this still doesn't put in doubt the transitional nature of Archie. This species still has numerous characterstics found only in reptiles and not in a single extant bird species. It is exciting that we are learning more and more about Archie through the years with new advances in technology and methodology.

I agree, if anything this appears to further strengthen it's case for being a transitional - reptilian anatomy with avian flight control.

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1. The Genesis record implicates the Edonic serpents as having higher mental capacity than all the other animals. I have repeatedly stated my belief that the Edonic serpents were dinosaurs.2. We have today, flying squirrels which do not seem to be evolving into birds. Is it feasible that this creature may have had some of that ability as a mammal?

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The immeasurable present is forever consuming the eternal future and extending the infinite past. buz

Hi Buz. Could you expand on this question a bit? I'm not sure what you're asking. Thanks.

But, Buz, dinosaurs are famous for their rather small brains - if these Edonic serpents are indeed dinosaurs wouldn't they therfore have lower, rather than higher, mental capacity?

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But, Buz, dinosaurs are famous for their rather small brains - if these Edonic serpents are indeed dinosaurs wouldn't they therfore have lower, rather than higher, mental capacity?

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Yeah, didn't several of the really huge dinosaurs have sort of "second brains"; ganglia of nerves close to their hind legs and tails to facilitate coordinated movement?

They're not really 'brains' - more kind of booster stations.