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Author Topic:   Velociraptor had feathers?
Dr Adequate
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Message 5 of 11 (423287)
09-21-2007 1:10 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Doddy
09-20-2007 7:29 PM


Which of course, updates the Jurassic Park image (which was totally wrong anyway) to look like this:
It's hardly cut-and-dried. "Fools rush in ...", y'know.
Wonder what Feduccia article AiG will cite to debunk this one...
The bit where he claims (and he might be right) that dromaeosaurs are primitive flightless birds. AiG will cut out the bits where he makes it clear that they are primitive, and that birds are archosaurs.

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Message 6 of 11 (423288)
09-21-2007 1:12 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by Zhimbo
09-20-2007 9:40 PM


...but only because it made sense based on its placd in the evolutionary tree. Speculation, really. Informed speculation, but speculation.
No, we've been talking about raptors with feathers for years because we've been digging 'em up for years.
This is merely the first indication that Velociraptor in particular might have had feathers.

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Message 9 of 11 (423307)
09-21-2007 6:05 AM
Reply to: Message 7 by arachnophilia
09-21-2007 5:45 AM


i liked "testable hypothesis" better, myself. and now "confirmed hypothesis."
another small victory for evolution.
No.
We already knew that there were feathered dromaeosaurs.
One more potentially feathered dromaeosaur is neither here nor there.

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