Raptors Had Feathers!

Filed under: News News — Scott King at 9:55 am on Saturday, September 29, 2007

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The new theory is that Velociraptors had feathers on their forearms, which seriously bugs me because in my mind Velociraptors look like they did in “Jurassic Park” (the pic above is one I took at the Cleveland zoo).

A close study of a velociraptor forearm found in Mongolia shows the presence of quill knobs, bumps on the bone where the feathers anchor, researchers report in Friday’s edition of the journal Science.

“Finding quill knobs on velociraptor … means that it definitely had feathers. This is something we’d long suspected, but no one had been able to prove,” Alan Turner, lead author on the study and a graduate student of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History and at Columbia University in New York, said in a statement.

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One Response to “Raptors Had Feathers!”

  1. Wowbagger Says:

    Feathers.

    Yech. Makes them look like wussies. Curse you, science!

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