Board Thread:Fossil Fuels/@comment-3213993-20150312063720/@comment-1259419-20150315145034

So, archosaurs have a very slow DNA evolution rate. For both single nucleotide mutations and gene order. That is good news. It means that the last croc-bird ancestor and last common bird ancestor give a good idea of what the dino genome looked like. Even when the dino's diverted long ago from the line that led to birds.