Bald truth about dinosaur feathers

08 January 2008

 Prof Theagarten Lingham-Soliar at the University of KwaZulu Natal has refuted the idea that the Psittacosaurus (parrot-lizard) had feathers running down its back. He said "I am convinced from the nonsense spouted by many of the people who denounce collagen in favour of protofeathers that they have never actually seen collagen in its natural or decomposing state." A lot of the evolutionary community wants to so bad to find evidence that birds evolved from dinosaurs that they will see it anywhere they look.

 Originally Chinese researchers claimed that there was fiber like structures running down the dinosaurs back that were primitive feathers when they probably were the remains of collagen fibers that reinforced the frill that ran down its back. Feathers could not be more different than the scales on dinosaurs and there is no known way that they could change from one to the other. You can download the video "Origins - 510 Formed to Fly" for more information. Once again the saddest part of this story is the last line in the article that said, "Although the new work will not challenge the link between birds and dinosaurs it will lead to a fundamental rethink of why feathers evolved in the first place."

In other words:
1. We know evolution happened
2. We know dinosaurs evolved into birds
3. Now all we need is the evidence


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml= /earth/2008/01/09/scidino109.xml