Of
course, I'm not really selling dinosaur feathers -- but they could be
close to it.
Recent discoveries of dinosaur fossils in
China show some with impressions of feathers, suggesting that some
species were covered with hairy-looking plumes. (Read more
about feathered dinosaurs. )
Your
dino-crazy kids will LOVE seeing these "living fossil"
feathers and imagining how they might have looked on
dinosaurs! You can also press these feathers into
clay and make model fossils.
These
feathers I'm selling come from emus -- a rather
"primitive" flightless bird that looks a lot like a long-necked
therapod. Are emus direct decendants of
dinosaurs? I don't know -- but many scientists
think that birds evolved from therapod dinos. And
if they did, then these feathers may be the closest you can come to
seeing what dino feathers were like. Emus have feathers
that are hairy-looking and undifferentiated -- that is, they look
pretty much the same all over the bird's body. They are also
the only bird that has a true double-feather on each quill.
These cruelty-free
feathers come from a flock of free-range Florida
emus. The birds shed their feathers naturally
during their normal annual molt -- no emus were
harmed in obtaining them.
This
sale is for TEN emu feathers 5-6 inches
long -- with FREE shipping! The picture only shows six and is a generic sample, but
your feathers will be basically the same as these. Please
note that no feather is ever 100% perfect, because the
birds use them for a year or more. (I
always laugh at auctions that list feathers as "new." How can
that be so? The birds used them
first!)
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