Re: When New Met Papers

[Dawid Mazurek <dawidmazurek@wp.pl>]

> This is the first
> record of Mesozoic birds in having four long rectrices, which may 
> represent
> morphologically a secondary sexual character, an intermediate stage from
> elongated scale to branched feather, and possess functional advantage in
> supplementing the lifting surface to compensate the unskilled flight.

An intermade stage from scales to feathers? :o
I thought it was long time since evo-devo showed that feathers are de novo 
structures not descendant from scales!
Cheers, Dawid