Michael Ostrogorsky

She Was the Kind of Person That Keeps a Parrot (Princess Tara Chronicles, #6) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Smart people say the Chicxulub impactor asteroid that smashed into the Yucatán Peninsula sixty-five million years ago, give or take, wiped out the dinosaurs, along with most other life on the planet, this unfortunate occurrence known today as the CretaceousPaleogene (KPg) extinction event. Parrot people know that dinosaurs still live among us, as parrots.

The KPg extinction event marked the end of the Cretaceous Period, the golden age of dinosaurs, and the beginning of the Cenozoic Era that continues today. We know from the fossil record that parrots lived on both sides of the KPg extinction event. Parrots, like woodpeckers and owls, are zygodactyl, which is a very dinosaurish sounding name for avian feet with two toes forward and two back, unlike the three forward and one back most modern birds feature. Fossilized zygodactyl tracks have been found dating to 120110 million years ago (early Cretaceous period), 50 million years before the first identified zygodactyl fossils.

Although controversial, the oldest reputed parrot fossil, found in Wyoming of all places, dates to the Mesozoic Era unceremoniously extinguished by the Chicxulub impactor asteroid. The Wyoming parrot fossil is notable for several reasons. The fossil appears to be part of a fully-formed modern parrot, not an antecedent or prototype. This fossil suggests parrots are older than we expected. Much older. Found in Wyoming, the fossil also suggests parrots did not originate where we expected. Fully modern parrot fossils have been recovered on the near side of the KPg extinction event as well. A fully formed parrot fossil dated to the Paleocene Epoch was discovered on Denmark's Isle of Mors, nicknamed Danish Blue in honor of the Monty Python Ex-Parrot. This find is important because the fossil suggests that parrots evolved in the northern hemisphere before branching into widely diverse species in the southern tropics. This fossil evidence suggests parrots are not evolved from dinosaurs, like some modern birds such as chickens. Parrots are dinosaurs. Living, breathing, modern dinosaurs.

The questions remain, how did parrots survive the Chicxulub impactor asteroid when most every other dinosaur did not? And unlike other dinosaurs, which demonstrate a clear evolutionary path through the fossil record, parrots simply showed up. What if the creatures we know today as parrots showed up from somewhere else? Somewhere far, far away. In time and space?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Michael Ostrogorsky
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463522660
• Artikelnr.: 72782481

Autorenporträt

Michael Ostrogorsky, Ph.D.s, History & Archaeology. Publisher. Blue Parrot Books. Parrot and coffee bean wrangler. Living in Seattle with two parrots. One of the parrots is big, blue, and a princess. A princess who just happens to be a witch. A witch with a coffee addiction. A witch named Princess Tara. Book One of the Princess Tara Chronicles, Blue Tara; Or, How Is a Hyacinth Macaw Parrot Like a Tibetan Goddess? now available. Book Two of the Princess Tara Chronicles, The Princess Witch; Or, It Isn't As Easy to Go Crazy As You Might Think, now available. Book Three of the Princess Tara Chronicles, completing the Blue Tara Trilogy, Parrots and Witches; Or, Love. Desire. Ambition. Faith. Without Them, Life Is So Simple, Believe Me, now available. Book Four of the Princess Tara Chronicles, Part One of the Kalaratri, or Black Night Trilogy, She Was Not Quite What You Would Call Refined, now available. Book Five of the Princess Tara Chronicles, Part Two of the Kalaratri, or Black Night Trilogy, She Was Not Quite What You Would Call Unrefined, now available. How do you defeat a goddess who controls death and time? Can you? Find the answer in the hair-raising head-lopping caffeine fueled conclusion to the Kalaratri or Black Night Trilogy, She Was the Kind of Person That Keeps a Parrot, Book Six of the Princess Tara Chronicles, NOW AVAILABLE!