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Just positing a question/theory about primates/apes.

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It was specifically a video about the primate or ape Gigantopithecus. Is this just crackpot theory working here, maybe my brain trying to explain away something supernatural with science, pure conjecture or something entirely different? I was just watching a video online. And I am completely intrigued. Sasquatch aka: Gigantopithecus.

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On the threshold of flight

10,000 Birds

We are on the threshold, just stepping across it really, of understanding one of the most important evolutionary events that ever happened. Science 12 December 2014: 346 (6215), 1253293 [DOI:10.1126/science.1253293]. I speak of flight, of course. This is a key feature of birds. Erickson, and David J. Varricchio.

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What happened with Archaeopteryx?

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But it is utterly bewildering to me to see news reports about this recent science that read “… An icon knocked from its perch&# or “Archaeopteryx no longer first bird.&# This has happened before, Archaeopteryx and the bird family tree have had an often tenuous relationship.

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