7 Quotes by Dale Russell


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    Most people feel that birds evolved from one kind of dinosaur. But our bad luck was to find the other kind of dinosaur, and unfortunately it has a bird-like heart too. So this means that bird-like hearts may be typical of highly evolved, late-in-the-era, dinosaurs -- they were evolving, they were changing.

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    The single aorta completely separates the oxygen-rich blood from the oxygen-poor blood and sends it to all parts of the body.

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    This came as a shock because we didn't believe we'd find a heart. No one in his right mind could find a dinosaur heart from 66 million years ago.

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    It probably liked to live in brushy terrain, around deadfalls, and could probably go through that terrain just like a torpedo.

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