RE: Horse feathers?

["Stewart, Dwight" <Dwight.Stewart@VLSI.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dann Pigdon [SMTP:dannj@alphalink.com.au]
> Sent: Saturday, November 21, 1998 5:30 PM
> To:   dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject:      Horse feathers? 
> 
> Does anyone know how close the eggs were to hatching, and if they
> were close do the embryos suggest independantly mobile hatchlings
> like those of most fowl, or utterly helpless ones? If it is the former,
> and they lack any indication of insulation, then it would seem that
> the evidence for feathered sauropods is unlikely. However the latter
> might leave room for the development of insulation some time after
> hatching (straw-clutching duly noted).
> 
> 
> P.S. (Subject line courtesy of the Marx brothers, for those mystified)
> 
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> ____________________________________________________
>       Dann Pigdon
>       GIS Archaeologist
>       Melbourne, Australia
> 
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> 
           One article indicated that they were at various stages of
development.  There was also no
        sign of the "armour plating" that adult Titanosaurs are known to
have, so THAT feature obviously
        developed later.  Now, the question is how much later.

        Dwight