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Buslady: Paleontologists generally take 3 - 7 years to study their findings before they can come up with enough conclusive evidence they can release to the public. Sometimes tho it's also due to the fact that the remains were in storage and forgotten. Altho I think this time around they needed permission from the family who discovered it since it was found on THEIR land. The kid who found the remains is gonna definatly be profiting off it. They decided to come out with their findings now mostly due to the fact that they've made a tv special and several books (one of which comes out tomarrow).
Jester: No this does not do away with the feather theory as there have been fosilized evidence of feathers for some dinosaur species (like the raptors and archeopteryx) Dinos such as the Duck Billed variety don't appear to have had feathers, rather they had scales and tiger like stripes.
Machias: Im trying to find out more about the upcoming special. But there doesn't appear to be anything on it on National Geographic's YouTube site ATM about it.
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