RE: Polly Want a Dinosaur?

["Stewart, Dwight" <Dwight.Stewart@VLSI.com>]

"Long John T. Rex"?  Yeh - I can see it! :-)  

On a more serious note; I found a reference from Tom Holtz from 1995 about
Archaeornithoides deinosauriscus, describing it as a maniraptoran.

Dwight
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        ABC News at:
        http://www.abcnews.com/sections/science/DailyNews/parrot981104.html
        has an interesting and amusing interpretation of the parrot/dino
        assignation.

        "Ruffles Some Scientific Feathers 
        A Parrot Squawks Amid Dinos" 
        By Christine Humphreys
        ABCNEWS.com
        "Nov. 4 - Picture a drooling, snarling Tyrannosaurus rex, preparing
to 
        rip into its next kill.   An ancient parrot that once lived among
the
        dinosaurs 
        in Wyoming may have looked like a modern-day macaw. Now picture a 
        parrot perched on the shoulder of the seven-ton beast. Pretty
comical, 
        right? "

        Perhaps having one's own parrot was a Cretaceous status symbol/
        established pecking order.

        Mary
        mkirkaldy@aol.com