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Possibility 1 seems to be out of the question even
for BANDits. Number 2 -- sure it is a bird, and so are Deinonychus,
Troodon, Ornithomimus and Tyrannosaurus! =8^) I'm
quite sure nobody (no scientists at least, and the BANDits are all scientists,
no matter how good or bad scientists they are) will take number 3 into
account -- nobody did when any of the feathered nonavian theropods were
discovered in the first place, and if Feduccia would claim
Sinornithosaurus to be a fraud, this would end like Sir Fred Hoyle's
claim on Archie, which means he could just as well commit suicide. So probably
BANDits will either say that nonavian dinosaurian feathers are
the strangest of all convergences on the planet, further clinging (scansorially
B-) ) to embryology and Megalancosaurus, or ABSRD will die (doubt
it). More probable IMHO is that BANDits will stay calm for a few months, as they
did after the descriptions of Caudipteryx and
Protarchaeopteryx -- and have there yet been any ABSRD statements on
Beipiaosaurus, Sinornithosaurus and Microraptor? --,
and then try to disprove everything at once (and fail in that), only to continue
the debate for another 20 years.
Desperately waiting for the paper :-)
BTW, the Nature article "An Early Cretaceous
pellet" has arrived -- Bird 1 has very large claws on its 2nd toes, comparable
(off the top of my head) to Rahonavis).
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