Re: naked heads (was: Re: Velociraptor Animation)

["Aspidel" <aspidel@wanadoo.be>]

From: "Williams, Tim" <TiJaWi@agron.iastate.edu>
>  there's no direct evidence of feathers
> from any part of the body in _Velociraptor_ or _Deinonychus_.  We don't
have
> integument preserved in specimens of either of these genera AFAIK.
> Velociraptorines have been reconstructed with feathers based on the
> principal of phylogenetic bracketing: the common ancestor of birds and
> dromaeosaurids were feathered, so we assume all descendents of this
ancestor
> were feathered until proven otherwise.

Totally agreed. So I'll just add: when there's evidence of feathers on a
dromie's head, one _must_ draw this species with a feathered head;
in the other case it's the artist's free interpretation IMHO.

Friendly - Luc J. "Aspidel" BAILLY.