Cool new bird-like dinosaur

[Mallon]

Check it out:

http://www.livescience.com/animals/081022-feathered-dinosaur.html

Epidexipteryx, a new feathered dinosaur from the Jurassic Period, likely used its long tail feathers for display and possibly to help with balance while creeping along tree branches. Credit: Zhao Chuang & Xing Lida.

 

[Chesterton]

Or maybe just used them to look pretty while posing for pictures. Excellent photography there.

 

[theFijian]

Who's a pretty boy then!

 

[Assyrian]

Tweety has been at Dr Jekyll's potion again.

 

[shernren]

It's a squirrel-peacock transitional! Everything I ever believed about evolution was wrong.

EDIT: Just noticed it was reconstructed by Chinese folk. Man, that explains why the little critter reminds me a whole lot of Guan Yu. Somebody was reading a bit too much Romance of the Three Kingdoms when the "we found a new dinosaur" call came ...

 

[Critias]

Check it out:

http://www.livescience.com/animals/081022-feathered-dinosaur.html

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Excellent rendering. I'm convinced by the picture alone. I repent.

 

[BeforeTheFoundation]

cool.

 

[Wirraway]

the thing was the size of a pigeon. probably too robust in this reconstruction.

 

[shernren]

Wonder how it tasted, then. Maybe a touch too gamy for common use?

 

[IndyPirate]

Whoa! That is one scary looking creature. I'm kinda glad that they are extinct now.

 

[shernren]

Whoa! That is one scary looking creature. I'm kinda glad that they are extinct now.

 

[WorshipBassist]

Oooooohhhh....pretty!

 

[Assyrian]

Wonder how it tasted, then.

Like chicken, they always taste like chicken.

 

[shernren]

Tastiness recapitulates phylogeny?

 

[Assyrian]

So why don't eggs taste like chicken?

 

[shernren]

So why don't eggs taste like chicken?

Maybe they're different baramin. They sure look different enough.

 

[Chesterton]

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[MrSnow]

Reminds me of the song "Mother and Child Reunion", by Paul Simon, inspired by a chicken and egg platter.

Perhaps a better question would be "why don't chickens taste like eggs"?