Re: Feathered Tyrannosaur?????

["Steve Brusatte" <dinoland@mailcity.com>]

Okay, I just read that original article and it is obviously different than the 
others.

When it comes down to it, the reporter never quite claimed that the Albertosaur 
was feathered, although the small little technicalities seem Clintonian!  

And, yeah, I have to agree with the fact that the journalist probably confused 
some of the National Geographic stuff with the article, mentioning feathers 
probably after reading the article entitled "Feathers for T. rex?"  I emphasize 
the QUESTION MARK, but journalists seem to constantly over look things!  

And, also the Bambiraptor thing was most certainly confused by the journalist, 
too.  The museum which acquired the new Albertosaur is the same one who is 
holding the birds origin conference, which is displaying Bambiraptor.  Us here 
on the list now know this find more closely as "Linsterosaurus," obviously 
named after the LINSTER family, who also found this Albertosaur in Montana.  
So, I am sure that the journalist was looking over a bunch of info on the 
museum's conference and the Linster family finds-which seem to number many-and 
simply got things confused.  Well, this in turn confused me.  Sorry for all of 
the confusion I have caused!

Steve
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:43:26   Phillip Bigelow wrote:
><<Dan and list,  Well, it could be a joke, but it wasn't played on me.
>This is obviously an AP news article.>>
>
>No, it's an original article out of the _Missoulian_ newspaper in
>Missoula, Montana, dated Jan. 22.
>
>
><<< I found the exact same article on the sites of two different
>print newspapers: Deseret News and the Spokane, Washington newspaper
>(whatever
>their name is).>>>
>
>The Spokane _Spokesman Review_  article is different in some details
>from the original story.
>
>The orginal story was written by Sherry Devlin, staff writer for the
>_Missoulian_ .
>The full article (I provided the web link of the _Missoulian_ to the
>list yesterday; check the list archives), made this statement that
>clarifies the bulk of the misunderstanding:
>
>"The Linsters ALSO <emphasis mine> found several Maiasaura (duck-billed,
>plant-eating dinosaurs) and a new species of feathered raptor - "a
>series of spectacular fossil finds," according to the director of a
>Florida museum who intends to make the skeletons the centerpiece of a
>dinosaur hall."
>
>So the "feathered" dinosaur was a referal to a dinosaur other than the
>Albertosaur that they found.  Is the raptor really "feathered"?  I don't
>know, but I suspect that it was a news media slip-up.
>
>                                                   <pb>
>
>
>


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