Re: theropod tongues

[NJPharris@aol.com]

In a message dated 97-06-10 12:40:26 EDT, MWEDEL@gslan.offsys.uoknor.edu
(Dictator-for-life Calvin) writes:

> >some sort of beak on _Tyrannosaurus_ is not *completely*
>  >unreasonable.
>  
>  Hmm . . . it seems pretty unreasonable to me,

Well, I certainly didn't mean a bird- or turtle-type beak.  The sort of beak
I was referring to would be (at most) a horny covering on the premaxilla, as
Greg Paul illustrates on other "protobirds".  I agree, certainly, that the
maxillae (and for all I know, the premaxillae, too) supported flexible lips.

Nick Pharris