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Originally Posted by ravens_cry
Not all of em, just because they are related doesn't mean all dinos will have feathers. Most skin cast fossils, as far as I know, don't show feathers.
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True, but preservational bias favors the thick and the dense. This debate of which came first (metaphor) the chicken or the dino is one of the most interesting areas of paleontological research to me. I eagerly await each new episode.
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(By the way, I hate it that so many papers in the areas of planetary science and geology are not easily avaiable to the dreaded "non-subscribers". It is like they are screaming at me: "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH". Good, I feel better now.)
I know you are a person who takes his physics seriously, but isn't it said that most great discoveries aren't discovered with "Eureka!" but with, "Hmmm, that's funny." Big Don
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