'Hidden Gem' Dinosaur Skin Fossil Reveals Surprises About Feather Evolution

A feather in your capon Ping!...................

And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.

I'm betting they all tasted like chicken...

This will be one of the mysteries of the unknown stories on History ending with: It turns out Democrats shed their skin at that site and the scientists mistook this for dinosaur skin.” Not humans, Democrats. 🐍D

Fact:
Humans shed millions of skin cells every day, snakes and other animals shed a layer of skin in one continuous piece, a process called ecdysis, which occurs between four and 12 times a year.

What are the odds it is fake?

Chickens have reptile like scales on their legs and feet... and some have both scales and feathers on their legs and feet.

Dinosaurs taste like chicken?........................

Decisions, decisions, decisions... etc. forever.

Evolution is God’s way of presenting what he created, one living thing at a time, with changes to all those things over time... and VOILA!... we now have trillions of ‘evolved’ things that God created with his infinite number of decisions.

Not evolution. Not changes. Not mutations. All that we see and hear and touch and smell and taste and think about and work with, all came from God’s unending number of decisions. Think about all that is in our environments and even outside our environments (including all that we observe in the cosmos), and we have to come to the conclusion that, it’s all been made possible through the infinite number of decisions from God. And, he’s not finished making an infinite number of more decisions.

We can explore what God created, but, only because He ‘DECIDED” to give us the capability to ‘explore’ and learn and make changes, but even those changes are through His decision to allow us to make observations and believe that we can change things. God created us in “His” image, but only to a very limited extent.

Feather and skin “evolution”? Not even close!

As you noted, this animal already had feathers and a scaly skin. Fully developed, not some halfway incomplete structures that would possibly become feathers and scales.....................

It doesn’t even have feathers, it has “bristle-like feathers” - in other words bristles. There is no feather structure there at all. Neither this specimen or any other specimen of Psittacosaurus has actual feathers.

Bkmk

It seems to me that Bi-pedal dinosaurs would have had feathers.
And Quad-pedal dinosaurs have had fur to protect their skin from solar radiation.
But I am nobody of significance.

A Cock-a-Doodle Saurus?

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Thanks Red Badger.

So when did peach fuzz first appear?

Marconasaurus.