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RE: Microraptor and Birds



Tom Holtz wrote:
Bloody Hell, folks!!!  Can't a guy be working on something without someone
(totally unknowingly, I admit) coming out the same on the dino list?!?!


No, no, no, no, and no! What would the fun in that be? It doesn't seem impossible for rapidly convergent ideas, I can recall several examples over the past few months, particularly one in regards to the possibility of a palpebral in a specimen that was assumed not to have it and regarding the synonymy of a few closely related Yixian taxa.



nick gardner = paleoartist = paleogeek

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