To: VadeRetro
Is it Feduccia who is the main opponent of Sinosauropteryx having feathers? I wasn't sure how extensive the debate was about it.
339 posted on
12/05/2005 3:26:03 PM PST by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
To: CarolinaGuitarman
Is it Feduccia who is the main opponent of Sinosauropteryx having feathers? He's almost the whole show. The issue was fuzzy when he started but he's held on about 10 years too long.
He thinks birds descended directly from archosaurs, the parent group of dinos.
346 posted on
12/05/2005 3:41:32 PM PST by
VadeRetro
(Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
To: CarolinaGuitarman
Yes...new study out in October of this year with some heavyweights.
Shows that this fossil never had feathers or protofeathers (just wishful thinking by many not-so scientific evolutionists).
There was a press conference and there were several articles written and posted on the internet.
350 posted on
12/05/2005 3:46:09 PM PST by
pby
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