Discovery News has some cool stuff about dinosaurs (what is the fascination, anyway? I was passionately interested in these creatures when I was a kid - now my 7-yr. old can’t get enough of them.)

Anyway, according to Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature, a small Chinese dinosaur was covered in vestigial feathers, or at least feather-like fuzz. (Now, it could be just that one dinosaur, right? Reminds me of a Paul Raiser joke - ghost Neanderthals talking from the beyond, saying - “Can you believe who they dug up? - “No, who?” “Joey.” “Wait, No-forehead Joey? Man, now they’re gonna think we were all like that!…”)
But I digress. The little Chinese dino seems to have shown a feather-like covering even back in the early days of dinopower, before theropods were the hip thing. Maybe the guy in Jurassic Park was right about his bird rant.

Also from Discovery News: A nasty, chicken-sized velociraptor. NOT what you’d want to find sitting in the outhouse on a dark night.

There’s more cool stuff on dinos - apparently the Stegosaurus was not as dumb as we all thought, but the Triceratops did butt heads just like my friend Danny and I dramatized with our 5″-tall plastic ones.

(Man, I guess I’m still dino-dazzled. I’m about as cool as Ross, in Friends.)