Did Velociraptors have feathers?
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Pure conjecture, I am sure.
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All those listed would be able to do this job Nicely. My favorite--Velociraptors. Oh for the love of a good chase!! The velociraptors would have her running on those tooth-pick legs of hers and she'd probably break both in the chase, fall and "CRUNCH"!! It's Din-Din Time, They might need to spit on her first before eating--Gets that bitter taste out of the Velociraptors mouths,LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yes, and this question has been asked before. Therefore, I'l quote myself:\n\n"Of course they have. But you'll never see the knees of any bird because their femora are relatively short and situated within their bodies. The joint that you normally see in a bird's legs is the equivalent to our ankle (although not formed exactly by the same bones); you'll notice that it articulates backwards. Next time you eat chicken, see if you can find the knee ;) \n\nHere's a good illustration:\nhttp://biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca/ftp/BIODIDAC/ZOO/VERTEBRA/DIAGBW/AVES029B.GIF "
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A birds bones are lighter and hollowed out.  The feathers are lighter then human hair.  There bodies are streamlined similar to an airplane.  Depending on what kind of bird,  these adaptations may vary.  An ostrich is much heaviar then a falcon.  A falcon is much like a fighter jet, it is built for flight and speed.  They achieve high speeds by having thin wings and light bones,  many birds are built in this way and some may not fit the category.  Some are not built for flight.  But these adaptations are set to make different birds greatly adaptable to there surroundings.
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feathers. but have been slowly fazing them out for the memory foam pillows.
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Eagle feathers are thought to be sacred items.
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They could. There were fish that evolved from swimming to walking. There is a fish called the flying fish that can jumpfrom the water and glide through the air for a ways to escape predators. Follow the link to see a picture, its fins look very similar to wings.\n\n\nhttp://oceanlink.island.net/oinfo/biodiversity/flyingfish/flyingfish.html
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I think the word YET needs to enter your train of thought. 10 years ago there was no evidence to suggest that the Archaeopteryx wasn't the ancestor of all birds, now we know more and find that there is something that pre-dates it. In 20 years time there might well be eveidence to pre-date it yet further.\n\nWho knows what will turn up? Do you think this find discredits the theory of evolution or is it just the established theory of the evolution of birds that, until more evidence is discovered, has been undermined?
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Although chickens are not exactly the paragons of flight ability, there are several adaptations visible in their skeleton that are the legacy of their avian heritage and their ancestor's ability to fly.\n\n(note that the fact that chickens still possess these adaptations even though they are not strong fliers is yet another piece of evidence that evolution is true.  any creationists have any rebuttals?)\n\n- Hollow bones.  Most birds have hollow bones that reduce the mass of their skeleton, making it easier for them to achieve lift.\n\n- Keel-like carina.  Also known as the breastbone, this is the big keel in the KFC breast piece that allows for the attachment of those huge flight muscles that we find so tasty.\n\n- Enlarged flight muscles.  Attached to the carina are the two main muscles, one for bringing the wing in a downbeat and the other for lifting the wing again on the upbeat.  You can see these two muscles when you eat that KFC breast piece too.\n\n- Pillar-like Coracoids.  Bones on either side of the bird's shoulders that act as support for the rib cage, and keep it rigid and not collapsing when the wings flap.  You can see these coracoids on the KFC rib pieces.  On humans, the same bone is much smaller and fused with the scaphoid (shoulder bone).  It's the pointy part of your shoulder that you put in your opponent's solar plexus during a really good shoulder check.\n\n- Lack of teeth.  Birds have lost their heavy jaws full of teeth in favour of lighter keratinous beaks.  They have replaced much of the grinding function with a gizzard filled with easily replaced stones, thus achieving an efficient method of processing food with little biological cost to themselves.\n\n- Forelimbs modified into wings.  This one's pretty obvious.  Chickens have the same arm bones we do, but they're stretched out and fused in various locations to form a wing.  The thumb forms a small wing called the alar that acts almost like the flaps on an airplane wing to control low speed stalls and maneuverability.\n\n- Feathers.  Lightweight, keratinous structures designed to catch and funnel air in such as way as to make flight possible, and they can also act as a thermoregulatory structure to help maintain the high metabolism required for powered flight.  This isn't really a skeletal adaptation, but traces of where feathers attach can be seen on some of the wing bones.\n\n- Pygidium.  The tail of most birds has been reduced to a small nub.  This nub supports the tail feathers (which help maintain flight control with minimal weight), as well as the oil gland used to maintain the hygiene of feathers.  In a cooked chicken, the pygidium is often called the Pope's nose.\n\n- Pelvis.  The long shelf of the bird pelvis provides attachment for the muscles that control tail feather movement, as well as providing support and structure for bipedalism, which is what allows the bird to use its forelimbs for a different mode of locomotion.\n\nThere are probably many more, but that's what I can come up with off the top of my head.
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Since dinosaurs are believed to be reptiles and birds, then yes, all would have been hatched from eggs.
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There's a lot more evidence than that which ties dinosaurs and birds together.\n\nChemical makeup is not where the support for the "scales" of the dinosaur evolving into feather comes from. It comes from the fossilized outlines of feathers found surrounding certain fossils.\n\nThey share many skeletal features, including the shapes of their hips, a shape only found in dinosaurs and birds.\n\nThey shared very similar lung structures, which are a series of air sacs, very different than what we have.\n\nThey had four chamber hearts, again, much like birds have.\n\nCertain fossils have been found that suggest some dinosaurs slept like birds, with their heands tucked under their arms.\n\nThe use of gizzard stones was common between both species.\n\nThis is called convergence. Many different pieces of evidence that come together to support a claim. Is it airtight? Is it absolutely certain that birds evolved from dinosaurs? No. However, even if it isn't true, this is not an either/or choice. It does not mean that a god created them.\n\nOh, and birds didn't come from pterodactyls. In fact, pterodactyls aren't technically dinosaurs. The closest common ancestor between birds and dinosaurs would have come from the raptors.
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From what I have been able to find on the subject, the shuttle cock must have all the feathers from the same wing of the bird in order for it to spin correctly to stabilize in flight.  Since all feathers must come from the same wing, someone at some time decided to use feathers from the left wing.  i suppose they could have selected the right wing just as well but they had to select all their feathers from either the left or the right and somehow the left was selected.
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The egg.\nBefore chickens evloved into chickens, they were some other species that laid egss.\nOf course, if you are a creationist, you'll dispute that.
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The Egg.\n\nDinosaurs came before the chicken, methinks.
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The feathers are always taken the L wing for consistency in flight and response.  Many feathers are found in mirror image on the wings.  These feathers may also have a different surface on the top and bottom.  The combination of these factors would make it very difficult to use feathers from the right wing to create a Shuttle **** that matches a standard one.   Hope that helps
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The egg.  It probaly evolved from dinos. Two types of dinos could have created the first chicken egg.
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What a cool project!  So to answer one of your questions, the crucial distinction among your phyla will be whether or not they're chordates -- which of course includes the vertebrates (but also some invertebrates such as sea squirts and certain worms).  \n\nSo your bipedal wolf (I'm assuming the missing d was a typo, but if "bipeal" is a word from your universe, please let me know) would be phylum chordata, class vertebrata, order mammalia, family canidae, genus canus, species lupus bipedalis (and I'm envisioning something like a cross between Lawrence Talbot and Speaker-to-Animals, without retractible claws).  But that's just off the top of my head.\n\nOne thing I've discussed with my ten-year-old son is the absence of hexapod vertebrates -- e.g. flying horses, winged dragons, etc.  If you were closer, I'd invite you over for coffee and an all-day discussion of where to classify them, and how they evolved.  Since all terrestrial vertebrates have essentially the same structure, it's clear they all shared a common ancestor which makes hexapodal vertebrates, sadly, impossible in our known universe -- so was there a hexapodal (imaginary) marine vertebrate who also scuttled across the floors of silent seas before crawling out of the surf and saying "Hey, the carcharodons can't get me here!  Kewl!"?  ...Which of course suggests all sorts of hexapodal marine vertebrates that shared the same skeletal architecture.  Ooooh, fun.\n\nAnd the final question... so zoology is the study of animals.  There's also cryptozoology, which I've described flippantly as "the study of imaginary animals."  But of course, it's more technically the study of animals that may or may not exist.  So what would we call your zoology, which is the study of animals you've intentionally invented?  Oh, of course, poeiazoology (-poeia, meaing to construct -- as in mythopoeia, the term Tolkien invented to describe the invention of mythologies.)\n\nAnd on that note, elen sila lumen omentielvo!