Re: Bird-like tracks from Late Triassic (new Nature issue)

[Jura <archosaur@reptilis.net>]

> Consequently, these bird-like footprints can only be > attributed to an 
> unknown group of theropods showing  > some avian characters."

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Hmm, that, or they belong to true avians that have done a good job of hiding 
their fossils from eager paleontologists until now. I can see both BCF 
followers and BAND followers enjoying this bit of news. 


Are they absolutely sure of the age, and that it wasn't a redeposition?

Jura


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