[thackney]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/04/04/technology-feathered-tyrannosaur.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-giant-feathered-dinosaur-20120405,0,5455707.story

https://news.google.com/news/story?q=feathered+tyrannosaur&hl=en&prmd=imvnsu&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=825&bih=465&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ncl=dFmKR-d6x7ZS0vMpu8-01VfmPlVmM&ei=4qF9T9HRJYOe8QTrjNmGDQ&sa=X&oi=news_result&ct=more-results&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQqgIwAA

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Thanks. I don’t dispute the find, and do buy into the idea that modern birds may have descended from a dinosaur lineage, but I’ve become very cynical when it comes to ‘hot’ research finds from a single group. I haven’t seen the Nature paper, but the LA times article quotes one of the researchers saying: “These plumes weren’t used for flight; they were filamentary and lacked a complex structure, giving the dinosaurs who wore them more of a fuzzy appearance.” That’s pretty impressive in and of itself - that large dinosaurs would have a ‘coat’.