Re: Re(2): Skin

[sean.kerns@sdrc.com (Snake)]

> 
> On 95-02-08 at 16.44, RAMSAY@cfr.cfr.ncsu.edu wrote:
> 
> > One of the distinctions of being a mammal is that you have hair.
> > Dolphins have eyelashes.
> >
>  
> Hey, didn't the Russians find a small pterosaur with hair a couple
> of years ago and christened it Sordus pilosus, i.e. Hairy devil?
> If I remember this right, maybe the sentence should read "one
> of the distinctions of being a mammal or a pterosaur..." which is
> of course less impressive-sounding and more fuzzy and conditional
> (just like real-life biology).

Well, yes, they did think it had hair, and named it accordingly,
but there has been a lot of dispute over whether it was hair, 
muscle sinew, or something else.
I haven't heard anything that said conclusively that it was hair.

> 
> Lars Bergquist
> lars_bergquist@public.se
> (lexicographer ... "a harmless drudge" according to Dr. Johnson,
> so bear with me)
> 
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