Thursday, October 9, 2008

peevish emus and extinct predators



The emu's thoughts may be summarised as follows: "You gloating scoundrel, if it weren't for this cage, I'd fix you. Don't forget that my hugely great grand-daddy was a T. rex who'd chew your entire family up for a mid-morning snack!"

Those who know me well know that I love dinosaurs. One person who probably knows me best calls me a velociraptor. This is one of my favourite images; I took it on my way to a holy shrine in West India. I think this was the first time I ever believed that the birds around us are the last remaining dinosaurs. Their feet look exactly like those of most predatory dinosaurs such as T. rex. In fact, The T. rex is more closely related to birds than it is to a Triceratops. Cool, eh?

2 comments:

Leah said...

Why did we evolve up and the dinosaurs evolve down?

Pranay Sinha said...

WE evolved up because the dinosaurs evolved down. Why they evolved down is a million dollar question. The asteroid theory is pretty decent.