"Dinos of a Feather" (ABC Science News On-Line)

[Phillip Bigelow <bh162@scn.org>]

List members Tom Holtz and Alan Brush are quoted.

Go here:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/dinobird990225.html

My favorite quote from the article:

<But in all of these new family trees, ?T. rex is inside
Sinosauropteryx,? notes Jacques Gauthier, curator of vertebrate
paleontology at the Peabody (Mass.) Museum.  That means that at some
point in T. rex?s life, ?it?s got feathers.?>

Well, ontogeny aside, I'm sure that Dr. Gauthier would have caveated,
had he had the chance:  "Unless of course, feather expression was lost
in the tyrannosaurid lineage."

Other than that, the press report did quite well in the accuracy
department.
                                              <pb>