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Re: Birdlike dinosaur boasted opposable fingers



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-----Original Message-----
From: dannj@alphalink.com.au
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Sent: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:15 PM
Subject: Birdlike dinosaur boasted opposable fingers

"Birdlike dinosaur boasted opposable fingers"Â
10:45 29 January 2007, NewScientist.com news serviceÂ
Jeff Hecht Â
Chalk up another evolutionary first for dinosaurs: Bambiraptor evolved opposable fingers 75 million years ago, long before our ancestors developed opposable thumbs. Â
Phil Senter at Lamar State College in Orange, Texas, US, made the discovery while investigating the arm movements that could have been made by a dromeosaur called Bambiraptor... Â
...Working with models of the bones, Senter found that Bambiraptor would have been able to hold prey with both arms, or use its long arms to bring objects to its mouth. But he was surprised to find that it would have been possible for the dinosaur to put the tips of the outer two of its three fingers together, the way a human can touch the tip of the thumb to the tip of the third finger â a trait Senter says is not known in any other dinosaur... Â
For more see:Â
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11047-birdlike-dinosaur-boasted-opp
osa ble-fingers.htmlÂ
(includes an illustration of the manus in action) Â
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