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Velociraptor,of Jurassic Park Fame,was One of Many Genera in the Group

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Velociraptor,of Jurassic Park fame,was one of many genera in the group of animals called dromeosaurs.The organisms in this group share characteristics of both dinosaurs that lived before they did and of birds,which evolved later.As such,they are


A) excellent examples of vestigial species that have gone extinct because their wings were insufficiently well developed to fly.
B) excellent examples of fossil intermediates that both support the predictions of descent with modification and help us understand the evolution of birds from their dinosaur ancestors.
C) excellent examples of fossil intermediates that both support the predictions of descent with modification and help us understand the evolution of dinosaurs from their bird ancestors.
D) excellent examples of how using DNA to study similarities and differences among organisms can help us infer evolutionary relationships among them.
E) excellent examples of evolutionary puzzles that cannot be explained by our current understanding of descent with modification.

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