Re: Longisquama

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/15/99 5:19:59 PM EST, mbonnan@hotmail.com writes:

<< Maybe feathers arose in the Triassic?  Maybe _Longisquama_ is the ancestor 
 of arboreal animals which led to birds and dinosaurs?  Maybe.  But we need 
 better evidence. >>

We >always< need "better evidence" in paleontology. This is a triviality. 
What we really need to do is drop a few preconceived notions about what the 
common ancestor of birds and dinosaurs might have looked like, take a better 
look at the evidence we already have, and see whether it leads to some 
interesting insights.