Re: A whole lot of trouble....

[Jeff Poling <jpoling@dinosauria.com>]

At 12:49 PM 10/30/96 -0500, gpb6845@msu.oscs.montana.edu wrote:

>Actually, I don't suggest it, I know it as a fact that dinosaurs had feathers 
>before they could fly (Sinosauropteryx); unless of course Compsognathids are 
>secondarily flightless, but retained nothing in their anatomy to suggest this 
>like many Maniraptoriformes.

   Whoops ... don't take that as fact yet.  Phil Currie's a sharp guy, but
until something has been published that does actual microscope comparisons I
wouldn't take this road just yet.  I wanna believe, but until ye olde
published manuscript appears.....

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