RE: Theropod beaks?

["Douglas W. Lewis" <dwlewis@rmii.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From:   Tracy Ford [SMTP:tlford@ix.netcom.com]
Sent:   Tuesday, June 10, 1997 10:38 PM
To:     dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject:        Re: Theropod beaks?

You wrote: 
>
>>From a recent post:
>
>>some sort of beak on _Tyrannosaurus_ is not *completely*
>>unreasonable.
>
 Tyrannosaurus, to my 
>mind, is lacking anything that suggests a beak.  It has "lip-holes" 
>along the jaws that Uncle Bob says supported fleshy lips, and I've 
>also heard that those foramina were for blood vessels and nerves 
>servicing the tooth roots. 

Well, Bob is wrong. Those fossa aren't for lips,.

Then,may I ask,what were they for?

Caleb
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