545 articles is enough


Early on, when I asked, I told someone that I started the
cold-blooded dinosaurs thread because it was a great
way to expose assumptions. And, yeah, I didn't single
out anyone or exempt myself when I said that we all worked
off a lot of assumptions.

Well that didn't work. Oh, sure, lots of assumptions were
exposed, but apparently assumptions are a bit like roses
in that nobody ever takes the time to stop & smell them.

My bad.

Anyhow, here's something interesting that nobody will
think about:

No dinosaurs had hair. Yup. A few appear to have had
something that looks like hair, but it's almost always
identified as "proto-feathers."

Pterosaurs are different though. Any of the hair-like things
we see growing out of them are called hair, fur or even
just "hair-like." No feathers. Move it over to a T-Rex and
you've got yourself yet another feathered dinosaur.... but
it's hair (or hair-like) on a pterosaur...

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  • Re: 545 articles is enough
    ... cold-blooded dinosaurs thread because it was a great ... way to expose assumptions. ... No dinosaurs had hair. ... it's hair (or hair-like) on a pterosaur... ...
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  • Re: 545 articles is enough
    ... cold-blooded dinosaurs thread because it was a great ... way to expose assumptions. ... No dinosaurs had hair. ... I may be wrong here but I seem to remember that scales and feathers ...
    (talk.origins)
  • Re: 545 articles is enough
    ... cold-blooded dinosaurs thread because it was a great ... way to expose assumptions. ... No dinosaurs had hair. ... Pterosaurs are different though. ...
    (talk.origins)
  • Re: 545 articles is enough
    ... way to expose assumptions. ... No dinosaurs had hair. ... it's hair (or hair-like) on a pterosaur... ...
    (talk.origins)
  • Re: 545 articles is enough
    ... way to expose assumptions. ... we see growing out of them are called hair, ... Hairs are found in mammals, bees, ... frogs, flowering plants, pterosaurs and so on. ...
    (talk.origins)