What about the little dinosaurs?

[old man emu]

The ABC is going to rebroadcast that series "Walking with Dinosaurs", starting on 3rd June. The advertising blurb talks about the monstrous beasts that ruled the planet. But what about the little dinosaurs? 

 

We all know about the leviathan dinosaurs, but surely there must have been heaps more little ones running around under the feet of the big ones. Just think of the plains of Africa and North America in present times. There are hundreds of big animals, but do we ever hear of the little ones? The have to be there. And back in the Age of Dinosaurs, there had to be little ones. I bet that mammals didn't evolve from 50 tonne behemoths. Those big animals were at the end of their evolutionary development.

 

Let's give our support to Compsognathus, a "chicken-sized" dinosaur. Compsognathus longipes is one of the few dinosaur species whose diet is known with certainty: the remains of small, agile lizards are preserved in the bellies of both specimens so far discovered.

[nomadpete]

Blessed are the little   dinosaurs. For they didn't inherit the earth.

 

 

Edited May 30 by nomadpete

[onetrack]

They actually turned into your chickens. Chickens are ruthless destroyers from above, just ask any crawling bug.

[spacesailor]

I would say ! .

it's the " Bin chicken  " the Ibis .

spacesailor

[Marty_d]

I think everything with wings and a beak is descended from a small number of dinosaur species.

Evolution has differentiated them into the massive and hugely successful avian world there is today. Mind-boggling when you consider the differences between a hummingbird and an emu or emperor penguin.

[spacesailor]

pterodactyl . Pterosaurs .

Are not a dinosaurs . ae they don't have the same perforated acetabulum .

spacesailor

[rgmwa]

Deleted as not very relevant.

Edited Monday at 11:21 AM by rgmwa