Re: Jurassic Park

[Scott A Hartman <ottscay@uwyo.edu>]

>>>Well many vultures are bald as an egg on the head (and frequently
shoulders) simply due to diet and hygeine.
Can you be certain of diet and hygiene of Velociraptor enough to
eliminate the possibility that it had LOST pellage?    <<<

So restore your dromeosaurs with bald heads ;-)

Again, this falls under parsimony.  Without evidence to indicate either
way,  then postulating the presence of a n unusual diet (after all,
carnivorous falconiformes have no problem feathering their entire bodies)
and or grooming habbits in order defeather a phylogenetically bracketed
taxa is special pleading.

Scott Hartman