Finishing up Theropods to Birds

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I took the last quiz for Palaeontology:Theropod Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds today.

This is part of the "Congratulations, you have passed the class!" message I got from the University of Alberta team who taught the course:

"Recall from this course that the wings and feathers, feet and claws, furcula, and maniraptoran wrists of birds were not solely their own. Such features evolved long ago in an age when the world was ruled by dinosaurs – an age that was almost, but not quite, extinguished. You can now appreciate that the sight of a bird in the sky is a triumph of evolution and a defiance of both gravity and extinction." 

Birds -- "a triumph of evolution, and a defiance of both gravity and extinction."  Yeah. 

Cool.

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