Re: Caution- "down-like" feathers

[Daniel Bensen <dbensen@gotnet.net>]

>> That is, the feathers have
some basic elements in common with natal down, such as lack of barbules, but
this by no means says they were down.<<

I would like to interject here with the predictable stupid-artist question: what
would dino-fuzz look like on a living dromaeosaur, troodon, etc.?  Would an
observer see something fuzzy, bristly, silky, or something other.  We've
discussed the fact that the fuzz tends to spread out away from the body in these
Chinese fossils, and so the halo look isn't probably true to life, but what _is_
true to life?

Also, what about fuzz distribution?  This thing has fuzz _all the way down its
snout_?!

Dan