About the new Zuni theropods

["Jordan Mallon" <j_mallon@hotmail.com>]

Has anyone noticed this giant push that the two new Zuni theropods seem to 
be getting in terms of supposedly being feathered?  I know these new finds 
show no traces of integument at all, but a segment that I saw on this 
morning's Discovery Channel really seemed to embrace the idea that these 
animals were indeed feathered, to the point that it was almost misleading.  
I'm not saying that I don't think these dinosaurs had feathers or not, but I 
do think that pushing the idea that these dinosaurs where feathered when we 
really don't have any direct evidence for saying so is... disingenuous.
Who's with me!?

-Jordan Mallon

http://www.geocities.com/paleoportfolio/


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