Comments on: Stunning feathered dinosaur fossil

By: martykayzee

martykayzee — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 01:56:00 +0000

Science is never “right.” It is always suspect. No one “believes” in science or had “faith” in it’s study. A theory is the best available explanation for a set of related facts. If you submit better facts, you may change the peer consensus.

ps – The are no exclamation points in science.

By: Nick Altman

Nick Altman — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 21:12:00 +0000

Probably because people cut the fossils from the rock and spend thousands of hours picking away at the rock to reveal the fossil inside. You see beveled edges around the bones because they were careful to make it look good.

By: Nick Altman

Nick Altman — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 21:10:00 +0000

What makes you think dinosaurs not having feathers was ever a “completely accepted scientific theory”. We’ve been finding feathers on dinosaurs for 30 years now, and it’s always been debated what they looked like.

By: sql_yoda

sql_yoda — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:35:00 +0000

So awesome thanks for the link – at first I was looking at the pic above and didn’t see anything resembling feathers but you can clearly see filaments and what looks like spar remnants in the pics taken under UV light.

By: sql_yoda

sql_yoda — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:31:00 +0000

I can’t wait until we discover dinosaur fossils with the remnants of laser beams on their heads.

By: benher

benher — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:31:00 +0000

Running from giant chickens seems somehow less romantic than giant lizards… Just how close are reptiles and birds on the tree of life anyway?

By: benher

benher — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 07:48:00 +0000

Spoiler: the Velociraptors shoot first

By: Mister44

Mister44 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 03:56:00 +0000

Thanks for the link.

By: darkjayson

darkjayson — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 01:32:00 +0000

I’m not sure that you can fit one image of dinosaurs after all they where around for a few hundred million years who says that in all that time they only looked one way, I think they might have existed in lots of different forms over time from the ones we imagine to the feathered ones as well.

By: Vivian Brown

Vivian Brown — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:36:00 +0000

http://www.theonion.com/articles/paleontologists-weve-been-looking-at-dinosaurs-ups,7100/ Paleontologists: ‘We’ve Been Looking At Dinosaurs Upside Down’

By: timquinn

timquinn — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:01:00 +0000

Hello? Pixels! tiny solid sandstone pixels.

By: Marja Erwin

Marja Erwin — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:49:00 +0000

No, you can tell from checking the teeth, the temporal fenestrae, the antorbital fenestra, the sclerotic ring, the hips, the ankle joints, and counting the fingers and toes. Also from the feathers, which are so far uniquely dinosaurian. [/pedantic]

By: JonS

JonS — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:35:00 +0000

“paradox-absorbing crumple zones”

I <3 this turn of phrase

By: TimRowledge

TimRowledge — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:10:00 +0000

That’s not a dinosaur, that’s a puppy!

By: wilmcdaniel

wilmcdaniel — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:58:00 +0000

But religion supports its facts with the theories presented before it.

By: wilmcdaniel

wilmcdaniel — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:54:00 +0000

Don’t tell that to my board of education here in Kansas.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:49:00 +0000

OK.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qXHZUmUcrYM/SbdQc2tZLUI/AAAAAAAAD0k/vrVsDV1nDRk/s400/furry_squirrelta%20il2.JPG

By: mrsoreto

mrsoreto — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:32:00 +0000

I knew there had to be a reason Big Bird scared the shit out of me as a kid.. it’s a fucking T-Rex!

By: Graham Fawcett

Graham Fawcett — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:32:00 +0000

That’s gorgeous! I’d love a high-quality wallpaper version, but I can’t find one on the NG story…

By: Pete Carlton

Pete Carlton — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:30:00 +0000

Some can be seen in the publication’s supporting information, here:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/06/25/1203238109/suppl/DCSupplemental
(Not linked to in the original article for some reason)

By: toyg

toyg — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:16:00 +0000

I didn’t insult anyone, but I’m happy you know to which category you belong.

By: sarahnocal

sarahnocal — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:14:00 +0000

Right. The debate is over when the name calling begins..

By: toyg

toyg — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:13:00 +0000

Yeah, I know, there are good religious people (I married one, for my sins) like there are bad religious people. I was just trolling the little troll.

By: thehookandeye

thehookandeye — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:13:00 +0000

The facial features/structure – the eye in particular – are especially breathtaking. What an image.

By: Marja Erwin

Marja Erwin — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:10:00 +0000

That’s not the religious view. That’s close to the religious fundamentalist view, except that they ignore the parts they don’t like and/or come up with metaphorical interpretations of the parts they don’t like.

A lot of [self-described] Christian fundamentalists insist that everyone should be hetero, everyone should marry, and everyone who can bear children should have as many children as possible. A lot of [self-described] Christian fundamentalists also assert that everyone is either male or female and this always accords with the doctor’s guess at birth. They must need paradox-absorbing crumple zones if they ever read Matthew. or any of the gospels. or Acts.

By: DavidLuce

DavidLuce — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:07:00 +0000

That’s the beauty of science!!

By: toyg

toyg — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:05:00 +0000

It depends on the debate. There can be no debate between trolls and scientists.

By: Marja Erwin

Marja Erwin — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:01:00 +0000

It’s been a long time since I read any of Crichton’s books, but weren’t they supposed to be Deinonychus antirrhopus instead of Velociraptor mongoliensis? About belly-high against average adult humans.

By: Mister44

Mister44 — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:57:00 +0000

Is there a better close up of the bushy tail?

By: sarahnocal

sarahnocal — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:55:00 +0000

Therefore the debate can never be over. Right?