Re: Feducciary challenges

[NJPharris@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/27/01 12:25:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
kinman@hotmail.com writes (quoting a certain anonymous someone):

>      Concerning the claim that this fossil is a dromaeosaur, I see no 
>  evidence of a sickle claw.  

Whoever wrote this needs to read the paper.  Figure 4b shows the sickle claw 
very clearly.


>   If this is the closest "nonavian" relative of 
>  birds, then it disproves the hypothesis that dromaeosaurs are the sister 
>  group of birds.

Huh?


>       Lastly, the claim that dinosaurs needed insulation is simply 
ludicrous. 
>    Even therapsids didn't need insulation in the warm, equable Mesozoic 
>  climate 

How about the sometimes more extreme late Paleozoic climate?


>  and there is no evidence that they had fur or Harderian glands.  

Nor is there such evidence for the *vast* majority of fossil mammals.  So?

--Nick P.