Re: ABSRD Absurdities

["Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Steve Brusatte wrote:

> Quoting Storrs Olson from an AP article published today (4-25):
>
> "To me it's the best specimen yet showing that these structures are >not 
> feathers.  There's nothing there that has a structure like a >feather."

Unlike those things sticking out of the back of _Longisquama_, which simply 
MUST be TRUE FEATHERS.  (I utter, my tongue dripping with sarcasm...)


> He went onto add, according to the article, that the structures Norell >et 
> al. call feathers "could be many things, including impressions of
> decaying skin or feathery mineral crystals common to many fossils."
>
> The excuses are getting weaker and weaker!

Anything But Small Running Dinosaurs, indeed.


Tim

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Timothy J. Williams

USDA/ARS Researcher
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Iowa State University
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