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Re: four winged Archaeopteryx

To: DML <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: Re: four winged Archaeopteryx
From: Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:31:36 +1000
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Tim Williams writes:

However, no modern bird is completely featherless.

I depends on how 'modern' you mean. There are chickens that are genetically engineered to be featherless:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2307

However short of them evicting naked mole rats and taking over their ecological niche, I doubt any bird would evolve to become entirely featherless without human help. Feathers are just too darn useful.

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