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  1. Jan-04-2010, 01:32 #1
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    "Tetrapod"??

    Birds (class Aves) are winged, bipedal, endothermic (warm-blooded), vertebrate animals that lay eggs. There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates.

    Funny, I always thought a tetrapod was something with four legs (hence tetra), then again, it might just be a blanket term for critters. Anyone enlighten me?
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    I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.
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    Where would we be without Wiki?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrapod
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