Re: SICKLE CLAWED PROTOBIRD?

[Jeff Poling <jpoling@infinet.com> (by way of cnedin@geology.adelaide.edu.au (Chris Nedin))]

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At 12:41 AM 3/1/96 -0500, GSP1954@aol.com wrote:
>Not that such a creature would be so surprising. Gauthier (1986) and myself
>(1988 PDW) noted that Archaeopteryx has an incipient two toed foot and hype=
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>extendable second toe. The dromaeosaur-Archaeopterx link is looking better
>all the time.

   Aha!  So that picture I thought I saw of _Archaeopteryx_ with a
dromaeosaurid sickle-claw/didactyl-pes WASN'T a figment of my ever worsening
instanity!

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