Re: Psittacosaurus Complexus

[Garrison Hilliard <garrison@efn.org>]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Jaime A. Headden wrote:

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I know this is tangential (but I think of interest in the endo-exothermic
wars)... has any exothermic animal ever had feathers?


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