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Pics or it didn't happen?

In response to Pavel's response, which was "...to prove words from book, you must scan the part of page where these words are printed... you must show THEIR words, not re-typing the sillyness", here is the entirety of the infamous dinosaur section of the The Wonderful World.

See, here's the Compsognathus we all know and love...

...so why is it an ancestor of mammals? I'm inclined to agree with Jerry D. Harris that they must have mixed it up with Cynognathus. Still a weird error, though. Maybe they're pushing the stem-haematotherm hypothesis?

I do like the "dinosaur-of-prey" term to describe the tyrannosaur. Can't remember seeing that anywhere.

Oh, and their unusual idea of dinosaur extinction and biogeography. It speaks for itself.

So, in short...

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