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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#00ccff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cbf010f4-5447-4d35-9691-6210fe1ad930/B08E7834-5BA8-4C9B-BDC8-47DB7899953F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/dinosaurintell.html" href="http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/dinosaurintell.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.daviddarling.info</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/dinosaurintell.html"><FONT size="5" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#ffffff">intelligent dinosaurs</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/dinosaurintell.html"><DIV> <TABLE width="230" cellpadding="5" border="0" align="right"><TBODY><TR><TD><IMG width="228" height="362" alt="dinosauroid" src="http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/../../images/dinosauroid4.jpg" /> </TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT size="-3" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> "Dinosauroid." Sculpture by Dale Russell and Ron Seguin, 1982, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada<HR size="1" /></FONT> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellpadding="5" border="0" align="left"><TBODY><TR><TD><IMG width="330" height="170" alt="Troodon" src="http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/../../images/Troodon.gif" /> </TD></TR><TR><TD><CENTER> <FONT size="-3" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> Troodon (Stenonychosaurus unequalis) <HR size="1" /> </FONT> </CENTER></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>What would have happened if the <A href="http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/../A/asteroid.html">asteroid</A> that supposedly hit the Earth at the end of the Cretaceous period (see <A href="http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/../C/CTbound.html">Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary</A>), 65 million years ago, had missed? One possibility is that the <A href="http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/../D/dinosaur.html">dinosaurs</A> would not have become extinct, advanced <A href="http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/../M/mammal.html">mammals</A> would subsequently not have appeared, and some of the descendants of dinosaurs might have evolved to become intelligent in our place. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/dinosaurintell.html">Projecting how other characteristics of this species might have developed he came up with a model of a large-brained, reptilian biped with enormous eyes, three-fingered hands, an absence of external genitalia (typical of reptiles), and a navel (since a placenta is found in some modern reptiles and may have been needed to enable the birth of young with big brain cases).</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B08E7834-5BA8-4C9B-BDC8-47DB7899953F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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