Well, I didn't think the 'feathers' on Mudokons looked very feather like at all. Feathers normally have lots of little hairs coming from a main 'stem' (don't know proper terms at current), but Mudokons headwear looks more like...maybe bags of skin or somthing? Or succulent leaves from Oddworld's odd plant life seems most likely in my opinion, at the moment. Or maybe a sort of skin or leather that's been stuffed in a sort of tube with leaves etc. to from the structure. This is of course, presuming they haven't grown naturally, as Mudokons seem able to change their style very abruptly.
I thought alot that Dinosaurs from a seperate group, like reptiles but warm blooded instead. The feathers, since they're damaged and less accuate as fossils, may be quite different from birds feathers, and evolved seperately to solve a similar problem, eg. convergent evolution (which means two unrelated creatures evolve similar designs to solve the same problems completely indpendant of one another)
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