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	Sinosauropteryx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sinosauropteryx prima ("first Chinese lizard-feather") was the first non-avian dinosaur found with the fossilized impressions of feathers.
		It lived in China during the Cretaceous period and is related to Compsognathus.
		Sinosauropteryx is important because it had feather-like structures, yet was not very closely related to true birds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sinosauropteryx (232 words)

	SINOSAUROPTERYX - Enchanted Learning Software
		Sinosauropteryx is the first dinosaur fossil ever found that showed evidence of having feathers (albeit primitive).
		Sinosauropteryx was a meat-eater and is the only dinosaur that has been found with a mammal in its stomach.
		The existence of Sinosauropteryx lends credence to the theory that the birds are descended from theropod dinosaurs and not from four-legged arboreal (tree living) reptiles.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/dinosaurs/dinos/Sinosauropteryx.shtml (778 words)

	Replies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sinosauropteryx was no exception: the large, sharply pointed, prehensile teeth that lined its jaws had serrated edges well suited to rending prey too large to be swallowed whole.
		Note that in Sinosauropteryx the lower jaws are not fused together at the chin as they are in modern birds; instead elastic ligaments enabled the jaws to spread apart at their tips, also contributing to a wider gape.
		Sinosauropteryx is the first non-flying dinosaur to have been found so far that shows traces of downy plumage, indicating that feathers arose before flight.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/773117/replies?c=4 (741 words)

	DinoData Dinosaurs Sinosauropteryx prima S083 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sinosauropteryx unequivocally proves that the phylogeny of the class Aves progressed from a small theropod as proposed by Ostrom (1976) and supported by numerous workers in the field, although previously there had been no empirical evidence such as a transitional form.
		Sinosauropteryx is an indication that the western Liaoning region of China is the site of origin of the class Aves and a center for bird evolution.
		Sinosauropteryx, Archaeopteryx, and Confuciusornis lie in the early evolutionary transitional phase of avian evolution, whereas true birds including Sinornis santensis and Cathayornis yandica possess numerous extremely derived characters, and represent a new phase of avian evolution.
	www.dinodata.net /Dd/Namelist/Tabs/S083.htm (1811 words)

	New Scientist Dinosaur special: Welcome to Dinotopia - Features
		Sinosauropteryx - meaning "Chinese winged lizard" - made its informal world debut in October 1996 at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's annual meeting at the American Museum of Natural History.
		When sinosauropteryx and its kin roamed the region 125 million years ago, it was covered by forest and quiet freshwater lakes.
		Sinosauropteryx had simple filaments; protarchaeopteryx had feathers very similar to those on a modern bird.
	www.newscientist.com /channel/life/mg18625001.900 (3693 words)

	Downy Dinos - EvoWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While proponents of the “thecodont” hypothesis have largely dismissed the evidence on the dogmatic a priori assertion that birds are not dinosaurs, it is nonetheless pertinent to review the data concerning the integument of allegedly feathered dinosaurs, and examine the alternative arguments put forth by some researchers (e.g., Geist et al 1997).
		There is a general consensus that in Sinosauropteryx at least, we have evidence of a pelage of basal feather homologues (Ji and Ji 1996, Chen et al 1998, Padian et al in Tanke and Carpenter 2001, Paul 2002).
		The integumentary structures of Sinosauropteryx prima are distributed along the midline of the body, extending from the crown of the skull caudally to the tail, and at scattered locations throughout the rest of the body including the abdomen, the knee, and adjacent to the humerus and ulna (Chen et al 1998).
	www.evowiki.org /index.php/Downy_Dinos (3936 words)

	Creation Truth Ministries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sinosauropteryx was a turkey-size dinosaur dated to the late Jurassic or early Cretaceous (Padian and Chiappe 45).
		Since Sinosauropteryx prima is one of the main fossils touted by evolutionary theorists to have protofeathers, it seemed pertinent to address this specific case of alleged protofeathers.
		Sinosauropteryx was just a theropod and did not possess any birdlike characteristics.
	www.creationtruthministries.org /pages/802131 (2580 words)

	Fossil birds, Archaeopteryx information
		We regard it as the new specimen of the Sinosauropteryx prima, because its skull, teeth, girdle, hind limbs, and candal vertebras are better preserved.
		It is no doubt that the bone structure of the Sinosauropteryx is obviously similar to Theropoda, such as large skull, sharp teeth, saw-tooth at rear edge of back teeth., strong skeleton, strong girdle and hind limbs, numerous scandal vertebras, and so on.
		To discuss the Sinosauropteryx belongs to dinosaur or bird, it is necessary to see the biological standard distinguishing reptile and bird.
	stonecompany.com /dinoeggs/study/birdpaper1.html (1604 words)

	Chinese Dinosaurs - Sinosauropteryx prima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sinosauropteryx prima was a small, meat-eating dinosaur that lived about 125 million years ago.
		Sinosauropteryx prima was discovered by farmers near Sihetun village in Liaoning Province and described in 1996.
		Sinosauropteryx prima was a small theropod called a coelurosaur.
	www.amonline.net.au /chinese_dinosaurs/factsheets/15.htm (136 words)

	Sinosauropteryx
		Sinosauropteryx was not 'furry', then, but might have had a quill-like covering somewhat like the modified feathers in the modern flightless kiwi of New Zealand.
		There's the rub: Sinosauropteryx was a small bipedal carnivorous dinosaur, but of a somewhat generalized lineage, less closely related to birds than dinosaurs which (we have good reason to believe) did not have these curious not-furry not-feathery pelts.
		The researchers speculate that the structures seen in Sinosauropteryx may have been an early precursor of feathers, but used for other functions, such as thermal insulation, or possibly sexual display.
	www-geology.ucdavis.edu /~cowen/HistoryofLife/Sinosauropteryx.html (823 words)

	EXN.ca \| Discovery
		Sinosauropteryx was the first of the feathered dinosaurs discovered.
		His point is reinforced by a new study out of Oregon State University which compares the close-up of the feathers on the ancient Sinosauropteryx to the fin from a dissected monitor lizard.
		The first of the feathered dinosaur fossils reported, Sinosauropteryx is the most primitive of the three species of feathered dinosaur fossils to be displayed at the exhibit.
	www.exn.ca /Stories/1999/06/01/55.asp (920 words)

	Chinese Dinosaurs - The first feathers
		The first dinosaur found with feathers was called Sinosauropteryx prima, which means 'first Chinese dragon feather'.
		Its skeleton was surrounded by a halo of feathers.
		Sinosauropteryx's very simple feathers were almost hair-like and probably first evolved to insulate small, warm-blooded dinosaurs from cold and heat.
	www.amonline.net.au /chinese_dinosaurs/feathered_dinosaurs/first_feathers.htm (45 words)

	Little Yixians
		A Preface: I was bored one knight and began a drawing of Sinosauropteryx, a drawing which snowballed into an assemblage of dinosaurs I'd been meaning to draw or re-draw for some time.
		The skin of Sinosauropteryx is covered in a hair-like covering affectionately known as dino-fuzz.
		As in it's close relative Compsognathus, one Sinosauropteryx was found with the remains of a lizard in it's stomach.
	www.azhdarcho.com /Art/Paleoart/yixians.html (1220 words)

	Sinosauropteryx prima - the first feathered dinosaur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sinosauropteryx is the first dinosaur fossil ever found that showed evidence of having feathers.It has been called one of the most exciting scientific discoveries in decades.
		Sinosauropteryx is important not only because of its integument, but also because it is a basal coelurosaur and represents an important stage in theropod evolution that is poorly understood.
		The area of Liaoning Province where Sinosauropteryx was found is extremely rich in 140 million year old fossils.
	www.dinosaur-world.com /feathered_dinosaurs/sinosauropteryx_prima.htm (435 words)

	Dinosaur News-ZoomDinosaurs.com
		These new dinosaurs Protarchaeopteryx robusta, and Caudipteryx zoui, together with the recently found Sinosauropteryx prima, have characteristics common to both theropod dinosaurs and to birds.
		Archaeopteryx - The oldest known bird had asymetrical feathers - it could probably fly short distances and was the size of a crow.
		Sinosauropteryx had a coat of downy, feather-like fibers that are perhaps the forerunner of feathers.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/dinosaurs/news/Feathered.shtml (511 words)

	ancient.html
		Sinosauropteryx had feathers 1.5 inches long, even though it was also roughly the size of a chicken, like Caudipteryx.
		Scientists think, that if Sinosauropteryx had feathers, they were for warmth, rather than for show or flying, that it would be warm blooded.
		This bird is between the Archaeopteryx lithographica and the bird Sinosauropteryx prima.
	www.northstar.k12.ak.us /schools/joy/creamers/Birds/AncientBirds/ancient.html (663 words)

	"Feathered" Dinosaurs
		Sinosauropteryx is a compsognathid theropod dinosaur with a covering of fine hair-like filaments.
		Plumulaceous (down) feathers up to 27 mm in length were associated with the proximal caudals (the base of the tail), and 20 mm in length along the lateral side of the right femur and the proximal end of the left femur (near the hip).
		Scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of the creature's neck region revealed hollow feather-like structures that were not unlike those of Sinosauropteryx, and similar to the fibre-like feathers found on a modern turkey vulture's neck.
	www.geocities.com /dannsdinosaurs/featdino.html (2717 words)

	Sinosauropteryx feathers?
		The trip was sponsored by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science, and the group had invitations from various Chinese institutions and the CAS.
		They were given unlimited access to the three known specimens of Sinosauropteryx by the Beijing Geological Museum and the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology.
		Papers describing Sinosauropteryx and Protarchaeopteryx have been submitted to western journals and are currently in the editing or re-write phases.
	www.dinosauria.com /jdp/archie/sinonews.htm (715 words)

	Did Dinosaurs have Feathers? A Thinking Mammal. The Dinosaur Heritage. AskWhy! Publications.
		Currie asserts that Sinosauropteryx is a dinosaur showing that the first idea is the correct one.
		The fossil Sinosauropteryx seems to be covered with short, hairlike impressions that must be of down or rudimentary feathers, similar to those of the birds from the same sediments.
		The feathers are relatively short, preserved mostly along the neck and back on the midline of the vertebral column, starting at the atlas and finishing at about half way along the tail, with very short ones, looking to be intermediate between scales and feathers near the vent, along the underside of the tail base.
	www.adelphiasophism.com /awwls/00/wls133.html (2323 words)

	Untitled Document
		Time: Sinosauropteryx lived during the late Jurassic Period to the early Cretaceous Period, roughly 121-135 mya.
		Features: Sinosauropteryx is the first dinosaur fossil ever found that showed evidence of having feathers.
		This picture of sinosauropteryx was drawn by the fifth grade student
	www2.educ.ksu.edu /EDETC786/Web-curriculum/worlddino/DINOSAUR/sinosauropteryx.htm (109 words)

	Indices Academiatrum, a Dialogue on an AIG Webcast with Jonathan Sarfati - TheologyWeb Campus
		The soft anatomy of the type Sinosauropteryx displays an overall poor state of preservation, and thus data derived from this material is largely ambiguous until such time as soft-tissues are found preserved with greater fidelity in similar theropods (Martill et al 2000, Paul 2002).
		Ruben et al (1997) attempted to mitigate these ambiguities with the soft-anatomy of Sinosauropteryx by arguing that preserved muscle fibers in the type Scipionyx were oriented in a position to be expected of diaphragmatic musculature.
		The position of the intestines in Scipionyx and the carbonized matter in Sinosauropteryx are identical, and given these data, the most logical conclusion is that the latter represents the fossilized post-mortem decay of the intestinal tract (Paul 2002).
	www.theologyweb.com /campus/showthread.php?t=11707 (5042 words)

	Feathered dinosaurs
		Here we report on an enigmatic small theropod dinosaur that is covered with filamentous feather-like structures over its entire body.
		Sinosauropteryx has the longest tail of any known theropod, and a three-fingered hand dominated by the first finger, which is longer and thicker than either of the bones of the forearm.
		Unlike Sinosauropteryx, the structure and distribution of filaments are heterogenous.
	www.geocities.com /earthhistory/fd.htm (2321 words)

	Re: Elton: Meteor May Not Have Destroyed Dinosaurs Afterall?
		Not only is Sinosauropteryx fascinating, but it also is just one of many specimens found at the same remarkable Chinese site and now being examined by Western scientists for the first time.
		Nestled inside was Sinosauropteryx: 22 inches long (most of that tail), fixed forever in an awkward stance, its strong-looking legs seemingly in mid-stride, its tail straight up, its head wrenched back.
		And Ji promised that "we have a good beginning to a long-term research project." He still thinks the mystery structure on Sinosauropteryx is a primitive feather.
	www7.pair.com /arthur/meteor/archive/archive8/Sept99/msg00391.html (1851 words)

	Evolution in Action Chapter 3 -- Exploring the Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ruben and his team analyzed the abdominal regions of Sinosauropteryx fossils, compared the pelvis bones to various dinosaur, bird, and crocodile species, and compared Sinosauropteryx to cross-sections of crocodiles and birds.
		They conclude that Sinosauropteryx's torso was clearly divided into a lung portion and an abdominal portion, with a dome-shaped, crocodile-style diaphragm that was probably pulled on by muscles that attached to their crocodile-like pelvis bones.
		They conclude that the discovery of crocodile-like ventilation in a theropod poses "fundamental problems" for the theory that dinosaurs are the direct ancestors of birds.
	cwx.prenhall.com /bookbind/pubbooks/freeman/chapter3/custom3/deluxe-content.html (605 words)

	Insight on the News: Paleontologists rewrite script, but dinos refuse to cooperate - includes related article on ...
		The most important find of all, however, is a specimen named Sinosauropteryx prima, a small, delicately boned, possibly feathered therapod dinosaur.
		The specimen was discovered by an amateur fossil hunter (as the story goes) who had sold the two halves of the relief to different institutions: one to Nanjing and the other to the National Geology Museum in Beijing.
		The Beijing scientists were so impressed by the appearance of feathers on the animal that they christened it Sinosauropteryx, meaning "Chinese dinosaur-bird." The Nanjing scientists, however, doubted whether the creature had feathers and considered it a new species of Compsognathus, the model for the nasty scavengers roaming the set of The Lost World.
	calbears.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n23_v13/ai_19504411 (1474 words)

	CM Magazine: A Moment in Time With Sinosauropteryx. A Moment in Time With Centrosaurus.
		A Moment in Time with Sinosauropteryx and A Moment in Time with Centrosaurus attempt to recreate the day-to-day lives of two dinosaurs: Layah, a keenly observant young sinosauropteryx, is a chicken-sized dinosaur with feathers living some 140 million years in the past in the region that is now Liaoning, northeastern China.
		By contrast, there is no modern animal analogous to the feathered, lizard-like Layah, and so the reader has more difficulty believing that she is a "real" animal.
		Appropriately enough for books that trace life cycles, headings in the texts (numbered in Sinosauropteryx, but not in Centrosaurus) begin segments of rising and falling action that demarcate stages, or the passage of time, in the animals' progression towards adulthood.
	www.umanitoba.ca /cm/vol8/no5/sinosaur.html (951 words)

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