Re: New fossil discoveries review, 2009

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

Ah yeah. This one got truncated, because Thunderbird is so stupid... 
When you click on the "reply" button, Outlook Express formats the reply 
the same way (plain text or HTML) as the original (and allows you to 
change that manually later). Thunderbird instead formats them like the 
default for new messages; and when you set that to plain text, you 
cannot compose HTML messages _at all_ anymore -- the setting in the menu 
disappears. <headdesk> Therefore I leave the default at HTML and change 
_every single_ message I send to the DML to plain text (_and_ rewrap the 
lines, which I have to do separately in Thunderbird...) after I create 
it. Except this one, which was sent in HTML only -- I must have clicked 
a few millimeters too far down.

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Rescued from truncation (it was sent as both plain text and HTML)...

>  Among the 20 new fossils
>  discovered in China were the remains of a
>  new type of flying reptile that lived more than 160 million years
>  ago. The find is named *Darwinopterus, for Charles Darwin, and* *is
>  estimated to be 10 million years older than Archaeopteryx,
>  previously thought to be the first known bird.*
>
>  ... What?
>
>  First of all, *Darwinopterus *is a Pterosaur, right? And how can
>  something be "previously thought to be the first known bird?"

Yes, of course it's a pterosaur -- there are still journalists out there 
who don't know that birds aren't pterosaurs, you see. And yes, the 
wording at the end is a bit clumsy.

Any _news_ in there? :-)

>  - Alex
>
>  On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:40 PM,
>  GUY LEAHY <xrciseguy@q.com> wrote:
>
> > Good photo review from the Tribune:
> >
> > 
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/ct-dinosaur-latest-pg,0,7747258.photogallery
> >
> > Guy Leahy