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The jellyfish , a native species and an invading one , appeared in prime spawning areas just as breeding season for many of the Gulf ' s most important species kicked into high gear .
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According to the National Marine Fisheries Service , the number of jellyfish in the Gulf has been rising for at least 13 years .
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Scientists say the jellyfish are exploiting three major human - induced changes in the environment : thousands of oil rigs and artificial reefs established to attract game fish have greatly increased the breeding habitat for jellyfish , which need a hard surface for spawning ; nitrogen pollution from farm runoff and industrial sources feeds plankton blooms , providing extra food for jellyfish ; and commercial fishermen take great numbers of menhaden , a soft - finned , bony fish that competes with jellyfish for the plankton .
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Dr . Monty Graham , a researcher at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama , worries that with all these advantages jellyfish cannot help but multiply at an astonishing rate .
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Making matters much worse , he said , is the advent of Phyllorhiza punctata , or Australian spotted jellyfish .
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The giant species , previously unreported in the Gulf , is a 25 - pound bruiser of a jellyfish native to the Pacific .
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Some time ago the basketball - size jellyfish established themselves in the Caribbean .
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This summer , after apparently riding ocean currents north , they concentrated themselves in the passes between the barrier islands that separate the Mississippi Sound from the Gulf of Mexico .
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The Australian jellyfish have now mostly died off in the Gulf .
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But fishery scientists worry that they may already have affected next year ' s fish populations .
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And scientists say the animals were spawning prodigiously , broadcasting millions of their own eggs as they ate the eggs and larvae of native species .
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Popular sport fish , including redfish , speckled trout , white trout and Spanish mackerel , as well as commercially important species like crabs and menhaden , spawn just outside the barrier islands .
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This year , their eggs and larvae had to drift with tidal currents through the jellyfish - choked passes to reach the estuaries that serve as nurseries for the baby fish .
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` ` These things are incredibly efficient at turning the water over , cleaning it of everything in it , ' ' Graham said .
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` ` We ' re finding them with 200 fish eggs in their guts . ' '
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The newcomers had a frighteningly effective feeding pattern that involved swimming to the surface , then diving down to the bottom , scouring the water of virtually every living thing smaller than a BB pellet .
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After flowing through the jellyfish gantlet , scientists said , the water was almost devoid of living things .
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` ` You really have two problems in terms of commercially important fish , ' ' said Harriet M . Perry , director of the fisheries section of the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Mississippi .
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` ` First the jellies are ingesting the larvae and eggs of these commercially important species , and then the fish larvae must compete with these incredibly efficient jellies for the same food source . ' '
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Perry said she worried that the Phyllorhiza might become permanent residents .
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Graham said he feared that their offspring might appear in larger numbers next spring .
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He noted , though , that the newcomers represented a small threat compared with the monstrous herds of native moon jellyfish still swarming offshore below Alabama , Mississippi and Louisiana in a huge swath roughly 100 miles long and 30 miles wide .
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It is these jellyfish that worry Dr . Joanne Lyczkowski - Shultz , a larval specialist with the National Marine Fisheries Service .
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MIAMI _ Seeking to mend tattered relations with his opposition and the international community , Haiti ' s president - elect , Jean - Bertrand Aristide , has assured President Clinton that he is committed to a broad range of governmental and political reforms , including a runoff for 10 contested Senate seats that had caused an electoral crisis .
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In a letter sent to Clinton on Wednesday and made public by the White House on Thursday , Aristide also said he would include opposition members in his government , consult with them in establishing an electoral council and let the Organization of American States monitor the human rights situation .
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Opposition groups , which had boycotted the November election , recently vowed to set up a parallel government to press Aristide after his inauguration on Feb . 7 .
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In it , the Haitian president - elect addressed a total of eight points discussed last week with an American delegation led by a special envoy , Anthony Lake .
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` ` I confirm my commitment to the points made therein , ' ' Aristide said in the letter , ` ` confident that they will help strengthen the ties between our two nations where democracy and peace will flourish . ' '
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Since 1994 , when it sent 20 , 000 troops to restore Aristide to power after he was toppled in a coup , the Clinton administration has sought to bolster democracy in Haiti .
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But more recently the United States has withheld direct aid , conditioning its resumption on free and fair elections and progress in the fight against the drug trade .
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Describing the letter as ` ` a real opening , ' ' a senior Clinton administration official said : ` ` It ' s up to the opposition and the new administration whether or not they wish to pursue it .
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ACE_2004
|
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I hope they do , because I do not see a good alternative . ' '
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ACE_2004
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Another administration official said the talks last week involved no quid pro quo , although all sides knew that a resolution of Haiti ' s political quagmire could result in the release of hundreds of millions of dollars in desperately needed aid .
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ACE_2004
|
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` ` I think Aristide is aware he has got a skeptical administration coming into Washington and sees the need to mend fences and to at least commit to some significant things , ' ' the official said .
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180,
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ACE_2004
|
[
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` ` If he follows through , they are very significant . ' '
|
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ACE_2004
|
[
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The biggest stumbling block to normal relations with the United States has been the controversy over the May 21 legislative and local elections .
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ACE_2004
|
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Ten Senate seats were awarded to candidates of Aristide ' s Lavalas party through a vote counting method later discredited by the international community .
|
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ACE_2004
|
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The method gave the Lavalas candidates a first - round victory even though the candidates had failed to win an outright majority .
|
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ACE_2004
|
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Since then , AOL ' s stock has fallen by almost a third , destroying most of the premium the company had offered for control of Time Warner .
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128,
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ACE_2004
|
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"geographical social political",
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So a Time Warner shareholder might conclude that America Online ' s chairman , Stephen Case , had bamboozled his Time Warner counterpart , Gerald Levin , into taking AOL ' s shares at the worst possible time .
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ACE_2004
|
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` ` Short term , anyone objective would say probably Steve got the better part of the deal , ' ' said Larry Haverty , a senior vice president at State Street Research in Boston and a longtime media investor .
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ACE_2004
|
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But Haverty , like many other Time Warner shareholders and industry analysts , hardly cares .
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ACE_2004
|
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With the merger likely to be completed later this month , he predicts that the merged company will grow quickly by combining AOL ' s marketing skills and captive base of online users with Time Warner ' s huge library of films , magazines and the like and its relationships with major advertisers .
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ACE_2004
|
[
"geographical social political",
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` ` The deal strategically and financially makes all the sense in the world , ' ' Haverty said .
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ACE_2004
|
[
"geographical social political",
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` ` Five years out , if you ' re a shareholder in this company , you ' re going to be a happy camper . ' '
|
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ACE_2004
|
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That view is widely shared .
|
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ACE_2004
|
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` ` Strategically , it makes a lot of sense , ' ' said Tom Wolzien of Sanford C . Bernstein .
|
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ACE_2004
|
[
"geographical social political",
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` ` These companies fill the holes of the other one .
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ACE_2004
|
[
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They ' re subscription - advertising combo models .
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ACE_2004
|
[
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The reality is the pieces are very compatible . ' '
|
[] |
ACE_2004
|
[
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To be sure , the recent history of big media mergers is hardly comforting for shareholders in either AOL or Time Warner .
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ACE_2004
|
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Disney stumbled badly after it bought Capital Cities / ABC in 1996 , and Time Warner stagnated for five years after it was created in 1990 by the merger of Time and Warner .
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ACE_2004
|
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` ` Huge deals are really hard to do and create a lot of uncertainty , ' ' said Roger McNamee of Integral Capital , which sold its 404 , 000 AOL shares the day the merger was announced .
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ACE_2004
|
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But if the merged company can overcome that hurdle , it will have big advantages over Disney and other traditional media companies , which are still struggling to figure out how they can profit from the Internet , said Jessica Reif of Merrill Lynch .
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ACE_2004
|
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` ` Given the multiple distribution platforms that they have , it ' s obviously a very powerful consumer engine , ' ' Reif said .
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ACE_2004
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` ` There ' s a reason that you see Disney and to a lesser extent NBC screaming in Washington . ' '
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ACE_2004
|
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John Schreiber , an assistant portfolio manager at Janus Capital , the mutual fund company that is Time Warner ' s largest shareholder , with more than 120 million shares , said the companies had already begun to demonstrate how they would work together .
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ACE_2004
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For example , AOL has pitched Time Warner ' s magazines to its users , resulting in hundreds of thousands of new subscriptions .
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And the companies are trying to sell big advertisers on deals that will reach both America Online users and the people who watch Time Warner cable channels and read its magazines , Schreiber said .
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ACE_2004
|
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` ` Once the merger closes , I think you ' ll see some very powerful cross - promotional deals across all of Time Warner ' s advertisers , ' ' he said .
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Schreiber also says the risk of cultural clashes between the companies is limited , because the companies disclosed publicly where top executives would stand in the combined company only a few weeks after the merger was announced .
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So people who feel their responsibilities have been diminished have had months to look for new jobs , and some have already left , he said .
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Given the strength he sees in the combined company , Schreiber said the question of whether Levin could have negotiated a better deal with America Online is moot .
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Shares in cable companies like Comcast have fallen 15 percent or more this year , while big media companies have been flat or up slightly .
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So ` ` it ' s not as if Time Warner shareholders have lost out on a great deal of upside , ' ' Schreiber said .
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ACE_2004
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WASHINGTON ( AP ) _ Fossil remains of a 120 million - year - old bird with unique feathers cast doubt on the theory of birds evolving from dinosaurs , some experts say , but others disagree .
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ACE_2004
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Two Chinese researchers report that a fossil called Protopteryx _ from a group of flying animals called Enantiornithine _ includes feathers that are ` ` different from those of all other known fossil and modern feathers . ' '
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ACE_2004
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Fucheng Zhang and Zhonghe Zhou of the Chinese Academy of Sciences suggest in the journal Science that the discovery supports the idea that feathers evolved from scales , like those found in reptiles .
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ACE_2004
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The study was to be published Friday .
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Some researchers who oppose the idea that birds evolved from dinosaurs embraced the new fossil as proof that birds and dinosaurs evolved independently from a common reptilian ancestor .
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But others say Protopteryx adds nothing to the dino - bird debate .
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` ` There is nothing in the skeleton of this bird that disputes the dinosaur origin of birds , ' ' said Thomas R . Holtz Jr . , a University of Maryland paleobiologist and specialists on bird evolution .
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ACE_2004
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` ` The fact that this Protopteryx has these weird flat feathers really doesn ' t affect that issue . ' '
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Alan Feduccia , an evolutionary biologist at the University of North Carolina , said the Chinese study of Protopteryx ` ` is a hot paper . . . that directly contradicts the idea that birds evolved from dinosaurs . ' '
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ACE_2004
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The new fossil was unveiled the day after researchers announced that another ancient Chinese bird , called Microraptor zhaoianus , supported the dinosaur origin of birds .
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In the study , Zhang and Zhou described the feather and bone structure found in a fossil of a starling - sized bird uncovered in northern China , the site of many dinosaur fossil finds .
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The Chinese researchers said the feathers have some of the characteristics of modern feathers , but the structure is more primitive than feathers found on Archaeopteryx , the earliest known bird .
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Archaeopteryx appeared about 145 million years ago , while Protopteryx was dated as more recent , about 120 million years ago .
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ACE_2004
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Microraptor , which was about the size of a crow , lived about 125 million years ago .
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ACE_2004
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Some elements of the Protopteryx wing bone and muscle structure match those of modern birds , said Zhang and Zhou , but the wing retains a claw found on some primitive birdlike animals .
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In modern birds , that claw has disappeared and been replaced with a structure that adds lift to the wing .
|
[] |
ACE_2004
|
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Nonetheless , Protopteryx is thought to have been a competent flier .
|
[] |
ACE_2004
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Most dinosaur researchers believe birds evolved 150 to 180 million years ago from a dinosaur group called Theropods .
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Researchers cite fundamental skeleton similarities to support the theory .
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The evolution of feathers , however , has been less clear .
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Some experts believe feathers evolved specifically to support flight , while others say feathers evolved first to provide warmth or protection from water .
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Fossils of three theropods bear hairlike images that some say could be the early precursors to feathers .
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ACE_2004
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But Feduccia dismisses the theropod hair as ` ` dino fuzz ' ' and cites the Zhang and Zhou paper as proof that feathers evolved from reptilian scales and that this could mean that birds evolved independent of dinosaurs .
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ACE_2004
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` ` Bird feathers are very closely related to scales , ' ' said Feduccia .
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ACE_2004
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` ` It is clear they evolved from elongated scales .
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ACE_2004
|
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Dino fuzz has nothing to do with feathers . ' '
|
[] |
ACE_2004
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Larry Martin , a University of Kansas paleontologist , said the Chinese researchers ' paper ` ` is the strongest evidence yet that bird feathers evolved for flight and that they were derived from scales . ' '
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ACE_2004
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Holtz , however , notes that Protopteryx , with its primitive feathers , lived millions of years after Archaeopteryx , which had feathers almost identical to those of modern birds .
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ACE_2004
|
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` ` This means the feathers on Protopteryx were probably an evolutionary reversal , ' ' said Holtz , adding that there are many examples where such reversals occur in nature .
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ACE_2004
|
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` ` This just shows that feathers are extremely adaptable structures , ' ' he said .
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ACE_2004
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Michael Novacek , a dinosaur expert at the American Museum of Natural History in New York , says that the Zhang and Zhou study is ` ` ambiguous ' ' on the issue of dinosaurs and birds .
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` ` The fact that you see a resemblance between scales and feathers doesn ' t eliminate dinosaurs as close relatives to birds , ' ' said Novacek .
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