ShadyW Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 BBC: New Feathered Dinosaur Discovered I'd really love to think that they were that colorful! Every complex scientific problem has an elegant and simple solution... and it is wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 I've been reading about this, great posting with the artist composition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadyW Posted October 24, 2008 Author Share Posted October 24, 2008 Every complex scientific problem has an elegant and simple solution... and it is wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadyW Posted October 24, 2008 Author Share Posted October 24, 2008 I've been reading about this, great posting with the artist composition. Actually, these "fossils" may be more up your street, Nicholas! Space Invaders in London Space Invaders Every complex scientific problem has an elegant and simple solution... and it is wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 Actually, these "fossils" may be more up your street, Nicholas!Space Invaders in London Space Invaders My comrades! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grampa dino Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 As these fossils came from China have they being checked for their Lead and Melamine content? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Great stuff! I never for a minute believed that feathers evolved for flight, but that they were a preexisting feature that, with refinement, allowed flight to evolve. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Well... given the diversity of all sorts of feathered theropods like Sinornithosaurus, Sinosauropteryx, and even some Oviraptorids, none of which have functional flight feathers, its pretty obvious. And that exact same conclusion has been published upon and repeated extensively within the literature on feathered maniraptorans. Even Protarchaeopteryx doesn't have asymmetrical primaries. There was a paper this year or last year by Norell and colleagues about a Velociraptor sp. ulna from Mongolia that had papillae (aka bony bumps) for big feathers on the forelimb. Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 PHARYNGULA has an image of the fossil. a, Main slab; b, c, skull in main slab (B ) and counterslab ©; d, four elongate ribbon-like tail feathers; b', c', line drawings of b and c, respectively. Abbreviations: l1, l2 and l7, 1st, 2nd and 7th left teeth of upper jaw; l1', r1' and r5', 1st left, 1st right and 5th right teeth of lower jaw; l2 and r2, 2nd left and right teeth of upper jaw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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