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Dinosaur With Mature Feathers Uncovered in China
AP via Fox News ^ | 3/6/2002

Posted on 03/06/2002 12:32:35 PM PST by CholeraJoe

Edited on 04/22/2004 12:32:43 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: CholeraJoe
Amelia: Harold, STOP IT! Those were my best pillows...Quit playing with that dog. Oh, you idiot, those were my mother's feathers!

Harold: I didn't know your mother had feathers.

From It's a Gift, starring W. C. Fields
41 posted on 03/06/2002 1:16:26 PM PST by Harrison Bergeron
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To: CholeraJoe
Well well well, science again contradicts itself. What's new? I was told in biology as other students for generations before me that Dinosaurs were cold blooded reptiles. If I had said then that they actually are more like chickens, then they would have sent me to the office to see the princpal for being obtuse.

Just can't trust what science says...

42 posted on 03/06/2002 1:16:37 PM PST by ColdSteelTalon
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To: Sgt_Schultze
Can you imagine the problems cleaning your car of dinosaur crap after it sat in the sun all day. Whew!

You'd need a firehose.

43 posted on 03/06/2002 1:16:43 PM PST by CholeraJoe
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To: CholeraJoe
Isn't this the story from a couple years ago? The Chinese farmer with some hoax time on his hands?
44 posted on 03/06/2002 1:17:49 PM PST by RightWhale
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To: CholeraJoe
just glad you included me in with the girls....
45 posted on 03/06/2002 1:19:57 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: farmfriend
We have albino peafowl here at a local zoo.

Yeah.. I always assumed that zoos had those things walking all around the place as part of the "zoo" ambience, what with the peacocks being so picturesque and all. Turns out they ravenously consume ticks as their main diet. One pea hen will keep the average yard clean all Summer. Our dog trainer recommends that people keep them if local zoning allows, especially if you live in spotted fever territory.

46 posted on 03/06/2002 1:21:06 PM PST by Harrison Bergeron
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To: medved
A dinosaur could easily have had feathers for insulation, but not flight feathers. Gigantic difference; the one could not plausibly evolve from the other.

Bird or dinosaur?

47 posted on 03/06/2002 1:21:23 PM PST by VadeRetro
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To: farmfriend

Well there you go...

48 posted on 03/06/2002 1:21:47 PM PST by Doomonyou
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To: RightWhale
One Chinese fossil was shown to be a hoax. It was believed, for a short time, because a lot of feathered dinosaur fossils have been found in China. Most have held up to scrutiny. One even has a forelimbs halfway between a leg and a wing, which makes it about as transitional as you can get.
49 posted on 03/06/2002 1:24:49 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian
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To: CholeraJoe
"I'm thinking forty foot ostriches with bad attitudes.

The now extinct Moa from New Zealand comes to mind.

50 posted on 03/06/2002 1:26:13 PM PST by Harrison Bergeron
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To: RightWhale
Isn't this the story from a couple years ago?

This is apparently a new one.

51 posted on 03/06/2002 1:26:15 PM PST by CholeraJoe
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To: CholeraJoe
Penguins and ostriches DEVOLVED from flying birds; you'd expect them to have flight feathers or at least it wouldn't surprise you. But a flight feather is a major engineering advance which could not plausibly evolve from hair or insulation feathers. It has complex structure, interlocking barbules etc., and a complex system for allowing it to be turned so that the flight feathers open like a venetian blind on upstrokes and then close again on downstrokes, and without all of that, the whole thing is useless.
52 posted on 03/06/2002 1:29:16 PM PST by medved
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To: Doomonyou
One of my favorite quotes:

...After surveying such theories [wild prognostications as to the cause of the 'saur's demise], satirist Will Cuppy wrote that 'The age of Reptiles ended because it had gone on long enough and it was all a mistake in the first place. The bats are going to flop, too, and everybody knows it but the bats themselves."

53 posted on 03/06/2002 1:29:27 PM PST by txhurl
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To: RightWhale
Archaeoraptor. It led to one of those "more noise than light" threads.
54 posted on 03/06/2002 1:29:50 PM PST by VadeRetro
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To: CholeraJoe
"I would want to be very certain that the fossil has not been deliberately salted with feathers from some other source."

So would I. Wouldn't you?

55 posted on 03/06/2002 1:31:45 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: *Crevo_list;*Evolution
Check the Bump List folders for articles related to the above topic(s) or for other topics of interest.
56 posted on 03/06/2002 1:32:07 PM PST by Free the USA
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To: ColdSteelTalon
Just can't trust what science says...

Yep, that's science for you, always modifying its theories when new evidence comes to light that contradicts older theories. Religion never does that; when physical evidence contradicts religion, they don't throw out the old religion -- they throw out the physical evidence!
57 posted on 03/06/2002 1:33:33 PM PST by Dimensio
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To: CholeraJoe
This wasn't funny Joe. I came over to check this out thinking there was a Hillary joke in here somewhere.
This is just about dinasaurs!
58 posted on 03/06/2002 1:33:35 PM PST by patriot_wes
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False alarm. Somebody was watching the dinosaurs on NBC and got confused.
59 posted on 03/06/2002 1:34:59 PM PST by RickGee
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To: CholeraJoe
a two-legged carnivore that could not fly and belongs to the same family as the larger and more fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex.

An ancient ostrich?

Somehow I just can't picture a relative to T-Rex sticking his head in a hole! Into an herbivore yes, but not the ground. ;-)

60 posted on 03/06/2002 1:36:21 PM PST by RikaStrom
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