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Re: Raptorex abstart, please?



2009/9/17 Tommy Bradley <htomsirveaux@hotmail.com>:
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Holy blap, people, can you PLEASE set your mail clients to plain-text?

The "abstract", such as it is, is freely available at
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;1177428v1?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=raptorex&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT
(that is one ugly URL).  But it says much less than most of the media
reports:

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Tyrannosaurid dinosaurs comprised nearly all large-bodied predators
(>2.5 tons) on northern continents during the Late Cretaceous. We show
that their most conspicuous functional specializations—a
proportionately large skull, incisiform premaxillary teeth, expanded
jaw-closing musculature, diminutive forelimb, and a hindlimb with
cursorial proportions—were present in a new small-bodied, basal
tyrannosauroid from Lower Cretaceous rocks in northeastern China.
These specializations, scaled up in Late Cretaceous tyrannosaurids
with body masses approaching 100 times greater, drove the most
dominant radiation of macropredators of the Mesozoic.