For the first daily pseudoscience update of the month of May, Frank Sherwin has found a short article in the Smithsonian called How Do Birds Find Their Way Home? Building on its subtitle alone, he has given us the equally short Bird Brains and Quantum Mechanics.
Posts Tagged ‘Birds’
29 Apr
Feather Denial
In which Brian flat out denies that Yutyrannus huali had feathers, against all contrary evidence.
8 Dec
Microraptor
For Wednesday’s DpSU we have Is New Fossil a Bird-Eating Dinosaur? Brian Thomas has a wonderful habit of randomly disagreeing with palaeontologists about the classification of various bird-like dinosaurs. If you believe him, you’ll think that Caudipteryx has no feathers, that Balaur is not bird-like at all, and now that Microraptor is a true bird (and also, not a dinosaur).
22 Nov
Another of These Man-Dinosaur Ones
You may remember the DpSU from last week covered in The Extinction of the Megafauna, when Brian Thomas argued that humans lived with dinosaurs. Today – in Bird Fossils Offer Clues to Dinosaur Question – he tries the same thing.
10 Nov
So Why Does It Matter?
To begin my DpSU catch-up, I bring you Archaeopteryx Is a Bird. . . Again, from Tuesday. This is a follow-up to Early Bird Gets the Boot: Researchers Reclassify Archaeopteryx. Basically, some other researchers disagreed with the previous group’s conclusions. They say of it that “this parsimony-based result was acknowledged to be weakly supported.” They [...]
29 Sep
The Tranquil Flood, More Dinosaur Pigments and the Petition to Ban Creationism
It’s been a slow week. Since writing the previous post – which was rather long – I’ve been resting my fingers, attending to other hobbies (so, apparently, if you convert a program from c to c++, and replace the structs with classes, you get less segmentation faults. Or at least you do when I’m writing [...]
23 Sep
It’s Dinofuz!
So, as I predicted in my DpSU Predictions post only a few days ago, Brian Thomas of the ICR has indeed written an article on the subject of the Mesozoic feathers preserved in Amber, called Have Scientists Finally Found ‘Dinofuzz’? Here’s a picture of what we’re talking about, which you will have already seen if [...]
26 Aug
Caudipteryx, and Other Bird-Like Theropod Dinosaurs
I believe I’ve been here before. When creationists talk about bird evolution, it is entirely to muddy the waters. They are prepared to say anything to make it look like the amazing evolutionary tour-de-force of bird evolution isn’t. In this case – in the article Feathers Missing from ‘Feathered Dinosaur’ Display – Brian Thomas of the [...]
