In reply to my reporting on Alan Gishlick's talk (during which Gishlick asserted that the discovery of _Deinonychus_ proved that bird ancestors were terrestrial cursors), George wrote... > The discovery of _Deinonychus_ showed nothing of the kind, of > course. Why did the audience laugh? Because they thought it was funny. DARREN NAISH darren.naish@port.ac.uk