RE: Featherless Sinosauropteryx

[evelyn sobielski <koreke77@yahoo.de>]

--- Gautam Majumdar <gmajumdar@freeuk.com> schrieb:

> News article with David Unwin's comments
>
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070521/full/070521-6.html

"If Sinosauropteryx was indeed featherless, then it
may be that feathers arrived on the evolutionary scene
later than palaeontologists had thought."

I think I have heard somewhere there was a most
spectacular recent discovery in the antediluvian
lithographic Plattenkalke at Solenhofen. According to
the few that have seen it yet, it is an impression of
a feather from the sediments of the Swabian Malm.

But it might all be a bad dream.

Eike


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