The crevo threads have been voluntarily suspended until the election, but we thought this news was important enough to warrant posting at this time.
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2 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??
3 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
Polly want a... finger?
5 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.
6 posted on
10/06/2004 2:12:41 PM PDT by
Dog Gone
To: PatrickHenry
Ummmm!
Tyrannoducken for Thanksgiving!
7 posted on
10/06/2004 2:13:09 PM PDT by
FreedomFarmer
(Viking Kitten Combat Scout.)
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. |
12 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.
13 posted on
10/06/2004 2:19:38 PM PDT by
Old Professer
(Fear is the fountain of hostility.)
To: PatrickHenry
Feathered dinosuars on the ground ?
That's one hell of a turkey shoot.
16 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.
17 posted on
10/06/2004 2:24:07 PM PDT by
AndrewC
(I also think that Carthage should be destroyed. - Cato)
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.)
20 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)
To: PatrickHenry
Dilong means Emperor dragon.
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26 posted on
10/06/2004 2:39:55 PM PDT by
Fintan
(Oh...Am I supposed to read the article???)
To: PatrickHenry
Not another prediction of evolutionary biology verified?????
Noooooooooo....!!!!
29 posted on
10/06/2004 2:47:28 PM PDT by
<1/1,000,000th%
(Heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee...)
To: PatrickHenry
Feathered ancestor of T. rex unearthed [Transitional species]
Ah, the bird as the ancestor to a dinosaur.
30 posted on
10/06/2004 2:51:33 PM PDT by
aruanan
To: PatrickHenry
Ancestors of the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex were clothed in delicate feathers Sounds like there were gay dinosaurs. No wonder they became extinct.
31 posted on
10/06/2004 3:18:45 PM PDT by
eggman
(With CBS and lies as with cats and hairballs - expect the unexpectorated.)
To: PatrickHenry
>But many palaeontologists have been predicting just such a find ever since the first evidence of a dinosaur with a feathery coat came from the same site in Liaoning in 1995.<
Oops!
Isn't that an acknowledged fraud?
36 posted on
10/06/2004 4:46:08 PM PDT by
G Larry
(Support John Thune!)
To: PatrickHenry
Goldarnit they went and dug up my great-uncle cletus......
42 posted on
10/06/2004 6:05:41 PM PDT by
festus
(Proud and Practicing Member of the Pajama Posse)
To: PatrickHenry
Wow, another really big bird!
60 posted on
10/06/2004 8:03:54 PM PDT by
visualops
(This Space For Rent Call 1-800-TAG-LINE)
To: PatrickHenry
...helping to preserve the soft, feathery outlines.Too bad they didn't offer a pic to help with the feather vs. fur question.
78 posted on
10/07/2004 7:38:31 AM PDT by
mewzilla
To: PatrickHenry
And...it was of course warm blodded.
97 posted on
10/07/2004 4:14:55 PM PDT by
bert
(Peace is only halftime !)
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