fed up

["Jerry D. Harris" <LOKICORP@compuserve.com>]

Message text written by INTERNET:Farlow@IPFW.EDU
>OK, folks, about whether tyrannosaurs are raptors, feathered or not, 
     and who else is/is not a raptor----I've HAD IT!!!!!
     
     Let me tell you what a raptor is, once and for all:  a raptor is a 
     member of the Orders Falconiformes or Strigiformes: a hawk, eagle, 
     falcon, owl or one of the relatives of said beasts.  Period.  End of 
     discussion.<

        Amen, brutha!


>Tyrannosaurs are NOT raptors.<

        ...unless you're Paul Sereno, in which case they _are_
tyrannoraptorans (ugh...that's the ugliest, most cacophonic term since
Bakker mentioned "Clevlanotyrannus" and "Wyomingraptor"...)


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                     Jerry D. Harris
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