Dinosaurs have feathers?
23 April 2011, 06:40 PM
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Dinosaurs have feathers?
They certainly didn't when I learnt about them in school! When did this revelation occur?
23 April 2011, 06:49 PM
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Are you not confusing them with birds
23 April 2011, 06:53 PM
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Birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs so it's plausible. Besides haven't you got anything better do on a Saturday evening than watch TV.
23 April 2011, 06:56 PM
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Archaeopteryx did have feathers dinosaur
23 April 2011, 06:56 PM
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Epidexipteryx same as above
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23 April 2011, 07:00 PM
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No doubt someone will be along and post on here to correct me while i am out eating steak
Without feathers
23 April 2011, 07:08 PM
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23 April 2011, 07:15 PM
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Birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs so it's plausible. Besides haven't you got anything better do on a Saturday evening than watch TV.
Well considering that is what I'm doing the answer obviously is, clearly not!
23 April 2011, 07:22 PM
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Well considering that is what I'm doing the answer obviously is, clearly not!
It was a rhetorical question.
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Happened a few years ago. More and more fossils are being found with evidence of feathers. So it's thought they started developing feathers a long time ago - the purposes of which have not been determined as they weren't thought to be used for flying.
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