RE: T rex feathers

[Jordan Mallon <j_mallon@hotmail.com>]

> From: Dora Smith <villandra@austin.rr.com>

> Someone named Kyle Lindsey wrote me privately, for some reason, that his
> "friends" at the Black Hills Institute have dug up a T rex in Montana and
> "had just found some feather imprints on near the humerus."

While I haven't heard of the impressions Kyle made mention of (and, in fact, 
I would be pretty skeptical of them myself), I do know that Kyle is a young, 
dedicated amateur paleontologist (who has done work for the BHI), and I 
doubt very much that his story is bogus.  No matter the origin of the 
impessions, I am sure there is some nugget of truth to his e-mail.

> And he told me that the web site for Paul Sereno, whatever that is, is 
> >http://www.paulsereno.org.

Paul Sereno is arguably one of the best-known paleontologists in the field 
today.

> I followed this link and found no obvious sign of an individual named Paul
> Sereno at it; though supposedly he is a paleontologist.

You must have missed this, then:
http://www.paulsereno.org/bio.htm

Though, admittedly, I don't know of his connections with any T. rex finds 
either.  (But wasn't he digging in T. rex country this past year or so?  I 
remember hearing something about that...)

Jordan Mallon

Undergraduate Student, Carleton University
Vertebrate Paleontology & Paleoecology

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