Re: News Story on Infobeat: Scientist disputes China fossil

["Adrian Thomas" <adrian.thomas@zoology.oxford.ac.uk>]

You don't think, _maybe_ they faked the feathers too? Likewise - how do we
know that the weird feather distribution on Protarchaeopteryx and
Caudipteryx is real and not just the result of sticking bits of fossil
feather onto a suitable dinosaur fossil?

Curious/Skeptical

Adrian
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>From: Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>
>To: dinosaur@usc.edu
>Subject: Re: News Story on Infobeat:  Scientist disputes China fossil
>Date: Sat, Jan 22, 2000, 6:57 pm
>

>so what are people going to do about the dromsaourid-like tail part that
>shows feathers?
>
>Give Greg Paul some chocolate cake?
>
>-Betty
>
>(george in possibly quoting somebody else said:)
> << As Luis Rey has pointed out, and as this article emphasizes, it is
>> important
>>  to remember that the revelation that _Archaeoraptor_ was faked actually
>>  leaves us with *two* new feathered dinosaurs from Liaoning:  the torso (and
>>  head?), which will presumably retain the name _A. liaoningensis_ and a
>>  feathered (?) dromaeosaur tail. >>
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