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Feathered ancestor of T. rex unearthed [Transitional species]
Nature Magazine ^
| 06 October 2004
| Zeeya Merali
Posted on 10/06/2004 2:08:54 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
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The crevo threads have been voluntarily suspended until the election, but we thought this news was important enough to warrant posting at this time.
To: VadeRetro; jennyp; Junior; longshadow; RadioAstronomer; Physicist; LogicWings; Doctor Stochastic; ..
Evolution Ping! This list is for the evolution side of evolution threads, and maybe other science topics like cosmology.
See the list's description in my freeper homepage. Then FReepmail me to be added or dropped.
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posted on
10/06/2004 2:10:13 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Hic amor, haec patria est.)
To: PatrickHenry
They dug up one of Theresa Heinz Kerry's relatives??
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posted on
10/06/2004 2:10:31 PM PDT
by
RockinRight
(John Kerry is the wrong candidate, for the wrong country, at the wrong time)
To: PatrickHenry
Now you've gone and done it.
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posted on
10/06/2004 2:11:19 PM PDT
by
Shryke
(Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.)
To: PatrickHenry
Polly want a... finger?
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posted on
10/06/2004 2:12:23 PM PDT
by
evets
(God bless president George W. Bush)
To: PatrickHenry
I'm puzzled. The description of the protofeathers sounds like hair, not feathers.
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posted on
10/06/2004 2:12:41 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: PatrickHenry
Ummmm!
Tyrannoducken for Thanksgiving!
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posted on
10/06/2004 2:13:09 PM PDT
by
FreedomFarmer
(Viking Kitten Combat Scout.)
To: PatrickHenry
"Transitional species" ? LOL!
No evidence backs that up. It's just someones imagination at work trying to convince the sheeple to believe in "evolution".
Maybe my cat will morph into a bird soon too! LOL!
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posted on
10/06/2004 2:14:20 PM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: PatrickHenry
Its critical that we save this endangered species. Global warming is bound to kill it off. It lives in wetlands. Bush is responsible for all this.
I'd love to have one of those little criters for my backyard.
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posted on
10/06/2004 2:16:09 PM PDT
by
JusPasenThru
(Reality is for people who can't handle Free Republic.)
To: nmh
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posted on
10/06/2004 2:17:13 PM PDT
by
cwd26
To: nmh
Well, it is tall, and apparently has good hair, I wonder about it's debating skills....
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posted on
10/06/2004 2:17:47 PM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Attn: CBS: We may FReep in our jammies, but we won't take your lying, lying down!)
To: PatrickHenry
It's just as well they're extinct. What with the hurricanes, the earthquakes, and the volcanoes, the last thing we need right now is flying meat-eaters the size of tractor-trailers. |
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posted on
10/06/2004 2:17:51 PM PDT
by
Nick Danger
(Freeping in my pajamas since 1998)
To: PatrickHenry
It'll never fly, you shouldn't waste your time.
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posted on
10/06/2004 2:19:38 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(Fear is the fountain of hostility.)
To: nmh
> It's just someones imagination at work trying to convince the sheeple to believe in "evolution".
My congratulations on an excellent satire of the usual Creationist claptrap.
To: evets
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posted on
10/06/2004 2:20:54 PM PDT
by
najida
(There is nothing friendlier than a wet dog, except for maybe a 150 pound wet dog.)
To: PatrickHenry
Feathered dinosuars on the ground ?
That's one hell of a turkey shoot.
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posted on
10/06/2004 2:23:25 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Truth, Justice and the Texan Way)
To: PatrickHenry
Holtz hopes that the new evidence will convince the scientific community that feathers evolved on dinosaurs long before the appearance of birds.Archaeopteryx is still older. Stated before, anything found in this formation will still be younger than a fully feathered Archie.
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posted on
10/06/2004 2:24:07 PM PDT
by
AndrewC
(I also think that Carthage should be destroyed. - Cato)
To: Dog Gone
You are correct on both points. Protofeathers probably served a similar function as hair in thermoregulation.
To: Centurion2000
OK, how do I field dress it?
To: PatrickHenry
The origin of birds from this group is further supported by this find. Featherlike coverings were probably pretty widespread in at least the smaller-sized theropod dinosaurs. So far, only a few fossilization sites have allowed the kind of preservation which would let us see such detail. This paucity of feather evidence has allowed skepticism of the whole idea, but here's another example for a subgroup not previously found with feathers. The more subgroups that have them, the farther back down the tree you put the common ancestor that first grew them.
One reason this matters, the somewhat older Archaeopteryx from limestone deposits in Europe had a dinosaurian skeleton (apparently closely related to some of the Liaoning China species) but a very impressive set of feathers. Today's find makes it easier to state that many of Archy's contemporaries were also feathered. (We just don't have well-enough preserved fossils for all of them.)
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posted on
10/06/2004 2:27:50 PM PDT
by
VadeRetro
(A self-reliant conservative citizenry is a better bet than the subjects of an overbearing state. -MS)
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