Did feathered dinosaurs exist?

EurekAlert (AAAS) ^ | 10 October 2005 | David Greenberg

[Sacajaweau]

Sure....The scientists noticed the middle finger was more extended....Ah, yes...It's a bird!!

[bert]

Scales are modified feathers.

[samtheman]

Scales are modified feathers.

And Liberals are modified bird-brains.

[Mr. Thorne]

Ah. David Drake.

That probably explains my reading of the book...

I'm just wishing Jerry Pournelle would put something new out. C'mon Jerry, have mercy on the fans!

[R.W.Ratikal]

"Do Feathered Dina sours Exist?" Yes, one species still exists.

It is Teddyrex Kennedysouras, also known as "Tedrex the Hut," a large feathered meat-eating predator with folds of armored fat protecting its sides and hindquarters.

TK's thrive lurking under bridges in the fetid swamps of Massachusetts waiting for prey to fall into the water.

Long thought to be extinct, TKs can also be found at watering holes generation after generation seemingly without end.

[PatrickHenry]

We've been told repeatedly that scientists don't allow any information to be presented that might conflict with existing theory.

Yes. That's why I try to post (or ping to) serious articles (not from creationist websites, of course) about factual disagreements, academic misconduct, etc.

[highball]

We've been told repeatedly that scientists don't allow any information to be presented that might conflict with existing theory.

Yes, but we've been told that repeatedly by the same people who keep getting confused by the word "theory."

[Leo Carpathian]

...and they tasted like chicken!
then they formed democRAT party and and that wiped them out.

Vote the bastRATs out into oblivion!

[VadeRetro]

Not new. Feduccia has been a doctrinaire naysayer on theropod origins of birds for years. Most of his counterarguments are quite stale and improbable.

Fossils with spectacular preservation of dinosaur feathers have turned up since he started doing that and he's still going.

This, for instance:

a closeup of a tuft near the left shoulder of this dromaeosaur:

From the AMNH site.

The specimen, BTW, is considered a near-relative of Archaepteryx, despite it being a dinosaur and Archy being nominally a bird.

[Mike Darancette]

"Birds are mesotarsal bipedal archosaurs with pennaceous feathers, and a tridactyl avian hand composed of digits 2-3-4."

I always thiught so. (Eyes glassing over)

[VadeRetro]

The site's decidedly non-Feduccial reconstruction of the same specimen:

[headsonpikes]

Did feathered dinosaurs exist?

I'm hoping Senator Swimmer tries to find out Harriet Miers' position on this question during the confirmation hearings. She's certainly left no paper trail!

[PatrickHenry]

Cute li'l fella.

[theFIRMbss]

>feathered dinosaurs

[furball4paws]

Just because you are suspicious, doesn't make you an expert.

[mlc9852]

I could have told you that!

[VadeRetro]

That's a "costume party" outfit? How do I get invited to one of THOSE parties?

[furball4paws]

This morning I had the honor, along with my entire family, to come face to face with a magnificent bull moose, right in my front yard. The only thing I could do was call the family and hope he wasn't feeling too aggressive, cause there wasn't any place for me to hide.

Distance - about 30 ft.

Ol' Bucket Nose was a sight to behold.

[furball4paws]

So your opinion, based on nothing, is something we should pay attention to?

[VadeRetro]

In re of nothing, there's a moose call so effective the manufacturer encloses a birth-control pill in the event your gun jams.