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To: PatrickHenry
Under the supervision of professor Anthony Russell, Longrich examined Archaeopteryx fossils and determined that the dinosaur's leg feathers have an aerodynamic structure that imply its rear limbs likely acted as lift-generating "winglets" that played a significant role in flight.

Oh, but it's a bird! Just a bird! Really!

Just a bird with teeth, unfused forelimb claws, lots of tail bones, a flat sternum, and--now we see--flight feathers on its legs.

For a better known and more obvious "four-winger," see Microraptor gui.

Google.

52 posted on 09/22/2006 8:04:24 AM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: VadeRetro
You got no evidence!
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53 posted on 09/22/2006 8:09:09 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Science-denial is not conservative. It's reality-denial and it's unhealthy.)
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To: VadeRetro

Looks more like a Phoenix to me.

Full Disclosure: Only mid-90's today. It's finally cooling off. :-)

Cheers!

123 posted on 09/22/2006 6:46:02 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
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Re: Microraptor Gui

er, I'm looking at the image of the cast, the feathers are painted on with iron oxide. There are no impressions.


167 posted on 09/24/2006 4:22:38 PM PDT by WizWom (Stupidty Hater!)
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