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Just a random thought....(I often have them when
I wake up in the early morning hours)....has anyone tried to intentionally seek
out specific formations that may hold the treasures like those that have been
unearthed in Laoning China recently??? I mean, now that a farmer just happened
to come across that first feathered fossil, they are actively mining the area
for more. But, has anyone tried to figure where there may have been the proper
conditions for such a bounty of fossils to exist? (ie....lakebed near active
volcano). I`d be particularly interested in Triassic deposits myself. My idea of
early pterosaurs evolving into birds would involve the first development of
feathers in a cold enviorn. Perhaps the missing link would be found in what was
then a southern polar region. Perhaps evidence exists at the continental edge
where Australia has rifted off from Antarctica, or perhaps Southern South
America? There must have been some volcanic activity in these areas,....and some
ancient lakes???
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