Re: Feathered Tyrannosaur?????

["Jerry D. Harris" <LOKICORP@compuserve.com>]

Message text written by INTERNET:bh162@scn.org
>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.<

        I suspect that the mix-up stems largely from the last dinosaur
article in _National Geographic_: "Feathers for _T. rex_?"  The timing is a
bit too coincedental; sounds like the journalist read the title (if not the
article) and assumes that paleontologists now think (universally) that
tyrannosaurids were feathered.  The mix-up between a tyrannosaurid and a
dromaeosaurid (can we PLEASE refrain from using the term "raptor?" We _are_
scientists, after all!) is less certain; possibly the separate reports of
the tyrannosaurid find and the "Linsternosaurus/Bambiraptor" finds came in
virtually simultaneously and the journalist thought they were identical...?
 Again, the hype about feathered dromaeosaurids from China probably added
to the confusion.

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