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1 posted on 03/12/2008 5:37:44 PM PDT by blam

2 posted on 03/12/2008 5:38:48 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)

Very cool! Thanks for posting...

3 posted on 03/12/2008 5:40:46 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle

5 posted on 03/12/2008 5:52:31 PM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)

So, in truth, they are just feathers and they have no idea what they were on. It proves nothing except that a feathered creature fot a little to close to the sticky amber.

6 posted on 03/12/2008 5:57:58 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)

Just remember, every time you fill a gap, there are two new gaps on either side. The gaps are winning.

9 posted on 03/12/2008 6:16:46 PM PDT by js1138

Wow. Now that is very cool. Very cool indeed. Thanks for posting!

13 posted on 03/12/2008 6:45:46 PM PDT by Digital Sniper (Hello, "Undocumented Immigrant." I'm an "Undocumented Border Patrol Agent.")

They could clone some DNA from that amber to see what the creature really was like.

On further reflection...better nix that proposal.

14 posted on 03/12/2008 6:50:39 PM PDT by hellbender

Good one blam. I have long had an interest in this subject.

17 posted on 03/12/2008 7:02:16 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)

18 posted on 03/12/2008 7:30:02 PM PDT by spanalot

Dino-Era Feathers DeathWatch™ (LOL)

19 posted on 03/12/2008 7:48:33 PM PDT by KarinG1 (Opinions expressed in this post are my own and do not necessarily represent those of sane people.)

[[Modern flightless birds such as ostriches and emus have highly simplified feathers, he said]]

Which suggests loss of information- not gain. (and just how “Highly simplified” are they anyways? As simplified as Dino Down which lacks true feather features?

[[”Obviously this animal [the feathers came from] isn’t directly ancestral to anything except later dinosaurs,]]

And we know this how? Ah yes, the ever accurate “It’s gotta be 100 million years old” scientific declaration.

[[The feather filaments, or barbs, had yet to become fully fused at the base and—similar to modern down—they lacked hooklets known as barbules to hold the filaments together.]

No kidding? Ya mean they were nothign but uniquely modified scales such as other dinos had, and not feathers after all? Lemme know when ya find ‘feathers’ with relevent features whoing a turn from scales to true feathers such as 1/2 fused bases, hooklets holding the filaments together (in varying stages of ‘evolution)

Until then, call them what they are- Dino insulation.

22 posted on 03/12/2008 9:40:57 PM PDT by CottShop

Does this mean that “Jurassic Park” wasn’t so far fetched? LOL!

25 posted on 03/13/2008 10:33:31 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Forget it...I'll never be able to pull the lever for McCain!)

Man, am I glad modern birds aren't as big as their dino ancestors. I wouldn't relish being bird food. :-))

27 posted on 03/13/2008 11:49:26 AM PDT by colorado tanker (Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)

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