RE: weird jurassic dinobird with very weird feathers

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Adam Crowl wrote:


> I'm not a DinoDoc but to my untrained eyes those ribbon feathers look a lot
> like the ribbon "feathers" on Alan Feduccia's poster-child, "Longisquama".
> Freaky.


Even freakier... the non-ribbon feathers are also described as membranous (or 
partly so):


"However, the free distal barbs of _Epidexipteryx_ arise from the edge of a 
membranous structure (Figs. 2b, 2c, 2d, 2d’), an arrangement that has never 
previously been reported."


I guess we'll hear more about this in the future!


Cheers

Tim
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