On 11/11/2010 12:09 PM, Brad McFeeters wrote:
This congruence between the full range of paleontological and developmental data strongly supports the hypothesis that feathers evolved and initially diversified in nonavian theropods before the origin of birds and the evolution of flight."
Has the evolution of feathers *subsequent* to the origin of flight been proposed? Er, since the days when pterosaurs were thought to be the ancestors of birds, that is?