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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.
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Paleontologists working in China say they have unearthed the first fossil of a dinosaur that appeared to have mature feathers identical to those of modern birds, including long, showy plumage on its tail and hind legs.
The U.S.-Chinese research team said the 3-foot fossil should settle once and for all the debate over whether birds and dinosaurs are related.
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More fodder for the Evolution vs. Creation debate.
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To: CholeraJoe
Maybe dinosaurs merely fashioned their ceremonial headdresses from bird feathers.
To: CholeraJoe
To: CholeraJoe
I raise exotic chickens - no, no fighting - and they've got the 'saur thing goin'
on.
I extrapolate a lot about dinosaur motion and behavior from them, particularly territorial routines.
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posted on
03/06/2002 12:40:00 PM PST
by
txhurl
To: CholeraJoe
False alarm. Further research has discovered that the fossil is simply a 1992 presidential convention delegate from the Massachusetts Democratic Party.
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posted on
03/06/2002 12:44:02 PM PST
by
pabianice
To: CholeraJoe
Was the dinosaur dressed in a black pantsuit?
To: CholeraJoe
Its truly amazing how the human mind can so glibly dismiss obvious evidence when it contradicts pre-established theories. The Therapods were clearly warm-blooded and some of them, at least had feathers. If they didn't give rise to birds themselves, birds and theropods had a very close common ancestor.
The idea of a 40 foot tall T. rex running around in a chicken suit is an amusing picture, however.
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posted on
03/06/2002 12:45:42 PM PST
by
ZULU
To: CholeraJoe
They don't even say if it was a boy dinosaur or a girl dinosaur... if it was a boy, I'll bet some girl dino told him his feathers were like just so immature. Girls like to tell boys they are immature.... it's a sign of female maturity.
To: CholeraJoe
Big Bird?
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posted on
03/06/2002 12:47:16 PM PST
by
TADSLOS
To: CholeraJoe
"I am not impressed," said Storrs Olson, senior zoologist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History and an ardent critic of Norell's work. "I would want to be very certain that the fossil has not been deliberately salted with feathers from some other source."
Is this to say a Chinese paleontologist put chicken feathers in the dino's grave 129 mil years ago?? Fiendishly clever.
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posted on
03/06/2002 12:47:23 PM PST
by
JimSEA
To: ValerieUSA
it was a boy, I'll bet some girl dino told him his feathers were like just so immature.I wonder if he spiked his feathers with mousse and walked around with his dino boxers showing above his dino jeans listening to dino rap music?
To: CholeraJoe;xsmommy;slip18;RikaStrom
were the feathers from Nordstroms? :)
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posted on
03/06/2002 12:49:53 PM PST
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TxBec
To: CholeraJoe;xsmommy;slip18;RikaStrom
were the feathers from Nordstroms? :)
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posted on
03/06/2002 12:49:53 PM PST
by
TxBec
To: JimSEA
Haven't Chinese archaeologists previously faked the bird-dinosaur missing link by combining fossils from different species? That may account for his skepticism/
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posted on
03/06/2002 12:50:12 PM PST
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motexva
To: CholeraJoe
Dinosaur With Mature Feathers Uncovered in ChinaHelen Thomas is in China!?!
To: CholeraJoe
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posted on
03/06/2002 12:51:31 PM PST
by
SC DOC
To: JimSEA
Fiendishly clever.Clever these Chinese. "Ah so, yankee plisonah. You suplised I speak you ranguage? Was educated in your country at UCRA."
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