Re: Feathered fallacy

Russell Stewart (diamond@rt66.com)
Sun, 04 May 1997 23:44:46 -0600

>Feathered fallacy
>
>THE enigmatic structures on the back of a small "feathered dinosaur"
>found last year are not true feathers, say four leading American
>palaeontologists who have just returned from examining fossil
>specimens in China. John Ostrom of Yale University says they are
>long parallel arrays of fibres that lack the branching pattern of modern
>feathers.

Hmm... sounds more like a proto-feather. Transitional fossil, anyone?

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