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Re: The absurdity, the absurdity (was: Cooperating theropods?)



>From: "Ray Stanford" <starsong@prodigy.net>

>>...There isn't any terrestrial
>>vertebrate that regularly preys upon another terrestrial vertebrate
>>thirty times it's weight, even in a pack.  Why should it?  There's 
other
>>prey to be had.  Why assume that extinct vertebrates did when extant
>>vertebrates don't?
>
>    Give Chris Campbell a break!  One extant terrestrial vertebrate 
even
>does it singly (or in multiples):  The vampire bat, a terrestrial, 
mammalian
>vertebrate).

But Deinonychus wings have yet to be found.  Unfortunately so,as they're 
reported to be tasty.

Larry

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