Lady Butterfly she/her@reddthat.com to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 3 days agoScientific possibility!reddthat.comimagemessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1540arrow-down115
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minus-squareFundMECFS@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·3 days agoWell it’s only until fairly recently by some very lucky presevations that we have larger scale evidence of feathers outside a couple species. And most of it is based on the middle part of the feather. Not the fluffy part that would be more like clothes.
minus-squareLousyCornMuffins@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoif they had metal buttons, they’d show up in the fossil record
Well it’s only until fairly recently by some very lucky presevations that we have larger scale evidence of feathers outside a couple species.
And most of it is based on the middle part of the feather. Not the fluffy part that would be more like clothes.
if they had metal buttons, they’d show up in the fossil record