Re: Jurassic Park

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 98-09-28 06:09:56 EDT, vonrex@gte.net writes:

<< AND YET... If we knew of elephants from fossil evidence only, and found
 impressions indicating "wooliness" on mammoths, we would doubtless assume
 that "modern" elephants (and rhinos for that matter) had "wool" too and
 would restore them that way.  Which would be wrong.  So you may claim that
 you "should" draw dromaeosaurids with feathers because creatures far more
 distantly related to them than the elephants I mention are to each other,
 had them.  So you "could" be wrong if you did.  >>

My point, vis-a-vis elephants, would be this: We can demonstrate that modern
elephants aren't woolly, so we do not illustrate them as covered with hair
like that of mammoths. But if we knew only the integument of woolly mammoths,
the >burden of proof< that elephants are not woolly would still be on the
artist.

Anyway, perhaps some dromaeosaurids were well feathered and others--say the
larger ones--were not.