Plucking the Feathered Dinosaur

A year ago, the so-called feathered dinosaur null null null null Sinosauropteryx null null null null made the front page of null null null null The New York Times , and was viewed by some as confirming the dinosaurian origins of birds. But at this year9s vertebrate paleontology meeting in Chicago late last month, the verdict was a bit different: The structures are not modern feathers, say the roughly half-dozen Western paleontologists who have...