> James Norton wrote:
> > >If the BCF folks are correct, and theropod dinosaurs are the > >secondarily > >flightless descendents of early feathered flyers, > >wouldn't there have been enough evolutionary time between the earliest > > >theropods and Deinonychus, for example, for theropods to have > regained > > >the wrist mobility one would expect in a ground-based predator? There's also been such a discussion about an
_Utahraptor_ mounted skeleton, an URL I posted in september 2001 I think, with
good photos of the wrist - check the archives.
Friendly - Luc J. "Aspidel" BAILLY
p.s. My mail address has changed:
please note aspidel@freegates.be
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