Babs took those pictures straight from Wikipedia. He is right, what was believed to be some kind of feathers turned out to be from a plant. But since then we have uncovered dinosaur remains with fully intact feathers on them. So your argument is moot.
Oh so finally someone agrees with something I said, - because your bud Pete called me liar. Thanks for that one Chief. However although they have found dinosaurs with feathers - they have also found some that were NOT. I never said ALL - Raist was implying all, and my response was to that. And it's not moot, because like i said they found some that were this way, and not moot because Many people feel the same way- see references cited. B-T-W- they are not the only 3 men who have studied this- there are others - MANY MANY MANY.
Wow! Thats so cool! Oh wait, your just lying again.
Righty-O! I am just a liar- just like the time you said the Lipson piece did not exist, nor the journal- and I proved it did, and even took pictures of the full article, and proved everything, but you just think I concoct everything in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. Sure, yeah, OK Pete. See references below on the many people who had studied this bird Gastornis and it's similar bird Diatryma. Bigelow, Phil (2006): Controversial Patterson "Diatryma footprint" slab has been moved. Posted on the Dinosaur Mailing List 2006-APR-02. HTML fulltext
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