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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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