Re: Mike Hoffmann Questions on Utahraptor

[Sherry Michael <st90snk7@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu>]

> Eating Habits: Carnivore (meat eater)
> Favorite Foods: Large, plant-eating dinosaurs.

(well, it wasn't a Big Mac! ;) )

> each foot was used to slash victims, perhaps while rising up on one foot or 
> jumping at the prey. Large 10-inch hand claws were also used to tear the 
> victim. While hunting in packs, could possibly have killed sauropod dinosaurs 
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Thom, you missed a very interesting discussion here on "packs" not too
long ago. Is this just an assuption from dein. material that may at best
*possibly* relate these animals together? Is there something we don't know
about Utahraptor?

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