Re: more about "feather" find

["Dora Smith" <villandra@austin.rr.com>]

It says that a fossil of a small dinosaur of the saurichian line was covered 
with long very primitive feathers.

Have any of you looked closely at the fur of a cat?  Some modern mammals 
could be said to have very primitive feathers.

When did synapsids develop their fibrous body covering?   Maybe this is 
parallel evolution.   Clearly it was an advantage to develop homothermy.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
tiggernut24@yahoo.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Paulsen" <birdbooker@zipcon.net>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 3:28 PM
Subject: more about "feather" find


> HI:
> FYI
>
> http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/03/tianyulong_-_a_fuzzy_dinosaur_that_makes_the_origin_of_feath.php
>
> --
>
> Ian Paulsen
> Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
> " Which just goes to show that a
>  passion for books is extremely unhealthy."
> from Cornelia Funke's "Inkheart".