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Were there Dinosaurs in the Bible?

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Tony650
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08-19-2004 9:11 PM 		Reply to: Message 84 by crashfrog
08-19-2004 4:06 PM

Re: Reptiles
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Dinosaurs aren't reptiles...
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Seriously? Well I can honestly say I didn't know that. Is it fair to say, though, that they are reptilian, in that they have "reptile-like" qualities?
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crashfrog writes:
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Crocodiles, birds, and dinosaurs belong to a taxa called "Archosaurs."
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Out of curiosity, which level of classification (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species) does "Archosaur" come under?
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Thanks for your time, Crash.
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Tony650
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08-20-2004 3:27 AM 		Reply to: Message 94 by crashfrog
08-19-2004 9:28 PM

Re: Reptiles
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They do share a number of qualities with reptiles, yes. As do birds, mammals, and amphibians.
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Fair enough. I guess until now I just intuitively felt that dinosaurs were more "reptile" than anything else. It never occurred to me that they may be a class of their own. I always assumed that "dinosaur" was a subset of "reptile," and I hadn't considered that they may actually be separate.
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crashfrog writes:
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Not sure. I'm not an expert in classification and the Animal Diversity book seems to indicate that modern cladistics may not be entirely compatible with the "traditional" levels of classification. Certainly I don't have the expertise to suggest how cladistics is supposed to fit into Linnaean classification.
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No problem. I'm no expert myself. I find organism classification interesting but I don't understand it nearly as well as I'd like to.
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Anyway, I'll have a look around and see if I can find it anywhere.
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Thanks for your help, Crash!
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