[hinckley buzzard]

I'm confused too. A virtually identical "find" was reported a couple years ago, raised a bit of excitement among the enthusiasts, but shortly thereafter was debunked by more sober (and unbiased) analysis. The first story was so similar to this one that I wonder if they are not both about the same fossils.

It is of course possible that just a couple years apart, separate finds of Chinese fossils would appear, to provide a reptile-bird "missing link," so-called "feathers" and all;

and it is just possible that even though the first report was a hoax, the second one, sounding just like the first one, turns out to be real.

Yeah, could be...coincidences occur every day. Plus we have such an authoritataive source, in Nature, the magazine home of the great global warming hoax.

[Dimensio]

I'm confused too. A virtually identical "find" was reported a couple years ago, raised a bit of excitement among the enthusiasts, but shortly thereafter was debunked by more sober (and unbiased) analysis. The first story was so similar to this one that I wonder if they are not both about the same fossils.

Well just wait and see. Scientists are good at picking apart one another's work (er, within the same field -- I wouldn't trust a mathematician or a physicist to "debunk" biological evolution, because that's not their field) and if there's something inconsistent or inaccurate about the findings, it'll come out.