Member Since: 8/13/2012
Posts: 32,832
|
Did dinosaurs behave like birds?
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/sto...irds/28130865/
It seems so 
Quote:
Horner explained to the crowd that dinosaurs likely relied on crests and combs for the same things birds now do — for species recognition and mate selection.
Birds use these structures to show off, he said.
"We see it to the extreme in birds. They are always showing off," Horner said.
Study of triceratops skulls at the Museum of the Rockies showed that their horns, once thought to be used for defense, are very thin and hollow in adults. Their shields show evidence of a complex vascular system below covered with a coat of keratin — the same as human fingernails — on top.
Poking a hole in the shield would result in massive bleeding, he said.
"Not only were horns hollow, they could poke a hole in each other only once," Horner said.
Horner's lecture culminated with claims that dinosaurs, which many researchers agree had feathers, likely were very colorful and exhibited birdlike behavior.
Like birds, when it was mating season, they tried to attract mates.
Also like birds, they probably danced to do so.
That means people must change the way they think of dinosaurs. Instead of being aggressive, scary creatures, they likely behaved more like the birds we are used to, he said.
"I want you to think about dinosaurs as being really, really different than the way we normally think about them because we do know dinosaurs gave rise to birds," he said.
|
Can you imagine these giants behaving like chickens and other birds, so crazy! They would have picked off any human like chickens do with ants 
|
|
|
|
