Re: four winged Archaeopteryx

["franklin e. bliss" <frank@blissnet.com>]

Some of them are born featherless.  The phrase "Ontogeny  
recapitulates Phylogeny" is after all a Biogenetic Law.  No doubt  
early Mesozoic avian theropod ancestors were featherless.
Frank (Rooster) Bliss
MS Biostratigraphy
Weston, Wyoming


On Oct 9, 2006, at 8:31 PM, Dann Pigdon wrote:

> 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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