Re: Bambiraptor (middle ground approach?)

["Jerry D. Harris" <dinogami@hotmail.com>]

> Since specimens = data, losing the specimen = losing all of the data.  We
> can maybe preserve a copy of some of it, but to me that is not enough.

  ...not to mention that photographs and casts canNOT replicate internal 
details -- histological, microscopic, pneumatic, etc. features from the 
insides of fossils won't be picked up in a cast of the external features.



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