Re: A hairy question

Tomas Raymond Gendron (trgendro@acs4.acs.ucalgary.ca)
18 May 1995 20:29:28 GMT

Tabuck wrote:
: Is there any way at all to determine from fossil evidence if/where/how much
: an animal had hair?

: Dave B.

>From what I have learned in university so far it is not possible
unless an actual imprint of hair has been preserved. Of course
if the fossil can be IDed as mammal than it can be inferred.