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Origin of the Birds 97

In fact, how e ver, com par i son of Sun's rays. Reptiles con sume the
birds and rep tiles re veals that these least en er gy, and birds the most.
class es are very dif fer ent from one Despite be ing an ev o lu tion ist,
an oth er, and that no ev o lu tion be - North Carolina University's
tween them is pos si ble. Professor Alan Feduccia op pos es the
There are many struc tur al dif fer - the o ry that birds are re lat ed to di no -
en ces be tween birds and rep tiles, saurs. His op po si tion to the di no-
one of the most im por tant of which bird claims is based on sci en tif ic
is bone struc ture. The bones of di no - find ings:
saurs are thick and sol id. In con trast, "All in all, I find the
the bones of both liv ing and whole di no-bird busi -
ex tinct spe cies of birds ness a to tal hoax." 93
are hol low, which Larry Martin,
makes them very a Kansas
light. Reptiles University au-
have the slow est me tab o lism in the thor i ty on an cient
liv ing world, while birds hold the birds, al so op pos es the
record for the fast est. For ex am ple, the o ry that birds are
due to its rap id me tab o lism, a spar -
row's body tem per a ture may
some times reach 48 de grees
Celsius. But rep tiles are un a ble to
pro duce their own body heat, warm -
ing them selves by means of the

Because of their heavy, bulky bod ies,
di no saur bones are very thick and
sol id. On the oth er hand, the bones of
all birds liv ing to day and that have so
far been dis cov ered as fos sils are
hol low and thus very light.

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