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On 11/20/25 3:03 PM, erik simpson wrote:
On 11/20/25 10:08 AM, x wrote:
On 11/19/25 03:02, Popping Mad wrote:
On 11/18/25 11:45 AM, erik simpson wrote:
ollagen has been detected in hadrosaur fossils, so it's unlikely but
still possible someone might eat some.
Aren't reptiles non-kosher anyway?
Some birds are Kosher.
Is the nature of the fossil such that the remains clearly
show that the animal did NOT have feathers?
Is it the other way around?
The fossil evidence so far finds feathers appearing is Coelurosaurid dinosaurs, which are in the broad group of therpods.-a Hadrosaurs are in
a different clade, and so far no feathers have been noted. (It may be of passing interest that Oregon State University was long a hotbed of acceptance of Alan Feduccia's idea that birds are not descendants of dinosaurs at all.-a They sometimes described themselves and BANDITS
(birds are not dinosaurs) or MANIAICS (maniraptoransare not in
acutallity celosaurians).-a Most of this noise died out areound 2010, execept for continued support from creationist sources.)
Note that those are both pejorative terms invented by their opponents
and not adopted by the loonies themselves, though they did sometimes use
BAND. They also coined the term BAD for "birds are dinosaurs" or BADD
for "birds are dinosaur descendants", presumably intended to be
pejorative in the other direction. I don't think anyone adopted those terms.
I note that there are psittacosaur fossils with odd fibers on their
tails, which might conceivably be some kind of feather. And of course
the hairlike fibers on pterosaurs. So the depth at which something
homologous to feathers evolved is not entirely clear.
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