Joel Duff video: Middle Triassic drepanosauromorph fossil

…. from when sporting a flamboyant, feather-like dorsal crest was all the rage:

Not a bird, not a dinosaur, not feathers.

Yep. That’s why Joel Duff applied a question mark to the title—and then proceeded to explain that it was not a bird, not a dinosaur, and (despite some YEC claims) it had keratinous display structures which weren’t “true feathers.”

Joel Duff’s channel is largely devoted to debunking YEC misunderstandings and misrepresentations of the science. At 6:50 he addresses “Why this challenges YEC feather-based taxonomy.”

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