RE: Featherless Velociraptor on Nat'l Geographic Channel Feb. 8

["Choo, Brian" <bchoo@museum.vic.gov.au>]

Nah... what really gets me is they've been mispelling Dorodon as "Durodon" 
since 2001...

Brian 

>But as Dr. Thomas R. Holtz says: "WTF - Where're the feathers?!"  See the
>ubiquitous featherless _Velociraptor_ at
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/morphed?source=banner_ngm_93#ta
b-Photos/11 .  It's probably yet another case of "Sure, they ought to have
feathers, but it's just too hard to do that in CG."  What a lost
opportunity!  "White Tip's Journey" from "Dinosaur Planet" still gets my
vote for the most authentic _Velociraptor_ in a documentary.



Ralph W. Miller III

Docent at the California Academy of Sciences

Member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 
 
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