It's times like this I wish I still had television; tonight the PBS show NOVA will have a special called "The Four-Winged Dinosaur" all about Microraptor. You can see a few brief clips from the show and some behind-the-scenes shots in this promotional video;
As with any show involving puppets, though, there were plenty of shenanigans that didn't make the cut for the final program;
More information about the show can be found at this website, and hopefully some of you who can tune in can blog it for the rest of us.
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The rundown sounds...interesting. Supposedly they're going to have people on who take Microraptor to mean that birds predate dinosaurs? Or something? I'll have to blog about the show when it's over.