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To: PatrickHenry
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.

29 posted on 10/10/2005 7:13:47 AM PDT by VadeRetro (I'll have a few sleepless nights after I send you over, sure! But it'll pass.)
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To: VadeRetro; PatrickHenry
The site's decidedly non-Feduccial reconstruction of the same specimen:


31 posted on 10/10/2005 7:18:23 AM PDT by VadeRetro (I'll have a few sleepless nights after I send you over, sure! But it'll pass.)
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