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Fate of Protoarchaeopteryx

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Subject: Fate of Protoarchaeopteryx
From: "ekaterina amalitzkaya" <eamalitz@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 19:03:55 -0000
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What is the current consensus on Protoarchaeopteryx. The published stuff is pretty poorly preserved except for the feathers. Is there a strong reason to believe it is not a badly smashed version of one of these other feathered forms around during that time?

Also the pygostyle of Nomingia now seems to be a purely convergent feature suggesting that the large features may have initially evolved only for display and then recyckled for flight. Thanks _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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