Re: Feathered Tyrannosaur?????

[Phillip Bigelow <bh162@scn.org>]

<<Dan and list,  Well, it could be a joke, but it wasn't played on me.
This is obviously an AP news article.>>

No, it's an original article out of the _Missoulian_ newspaper in
Missoula, Montana, dated Jan. 22.


<<< I found the exact same article on the sites of two different
print newspapers: Deseret News and the Spokane, Washington newspaper
(whatever
their name is).>>>

The Spokane _Spokesman Review_  article is different in some details
from the original story.

The orginal story was written by Sherry Devlin, staff writer for the
_Missoulian_ .
The full article (I provided the web link of the _Missoulian_ to the
list yesterday; check the list archives), made this statement that
clarifies the bulk of the misunderstanding:

"The Linsters ALSO <emphasis mine> found several Maiasaura (duck-billed,
plant-eating dinosaurs) and a new species of feathered raptor - "a
series of spectacular fossil finds," according to the director of a
Florida museum who intends to make the skeletons the centerpiece of a
dinosaur hall."

So the "feathered" dinosaur was a referal to a dinosaur other than the
Albertosaur that they found.  Is the raptor really "feathered"?  I don't
know, but I suspect that it was a news media slip-up.

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