On the contrary, there is a considerable body of evidence that these fossil traces, known as ‘dino-fuzz’, have nothing to do with bird feathers…
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Alan Feduccia6 quotes“On the contrary, there is a considerable body of evidence that these fossil traces, known as ‘dino-fuzz’, have nothing to do with bird feathers…”
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Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.
Alan FeducciaAlan Feduccia I, and many others, do not find any credible evidence that those structures represent protofeathers.
Alan FeducciaAlan Feduccia Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur.
Alan FeducciaAlan Feduccia But it’s not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of ‘paleobabble’ is going to change that.
Alan FeducciaAlan Feduccia Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian.
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