RE: Sinornithosaurus millenii

["Tracy Ford" <tlford@ix.netcom.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
Michael de Sosa
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 9:13 PM
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: Sinornithosaurus millenii

Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:

> The following article will appear in tomorrow's issue of Nature:
>
> Nature 401, 262 - 266 (1999) (c) Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
>
> A dromaeosaurid dinosaur with a filamentous integument from the Yixian
> Formation of China

Does this clinch it or what?  How could anyone argue now?  We
predicted the closest relatives purely by morphology, and now it
is confimired.  The essence of predictability.  I'm stunned.

Let me say this, it ain't over yet. In a few short years, more specimens
will blur lines of between dinosaurs/dinosaurs, dinosaurs/birds, etc. That's
all I can say for now.
Tracy