Re: Palms in

[Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>]

I dunno- with Horner reconstructing T rex so the arms are buried in body
muscle tissue solidly to the elbows, and with other reconstructions of
the arms of T rex being held out horizontally from the body at the
shoulders, with the forearms pointing forewards, I'm not so sure T rex
could even reach one arm with the other.

Comments?

-Betty Cunningham


Ronald Orenstein wrote:
> 
> At 03:06 AM 08/07/2000 -0700, Scott Hartman wrote:
> >This is taken to an extreme in allosaurs, which seem to have modified the
> >distal end of the ulna and radius in order to reduce mobility around the
> >long axis of the forearm.  Why did they do this?
> 
> I speculated here a while back that one advantage of inward-directed,
> non-pronating forearms could be their use in a strike equivalent to a pair
> of ice tongs, with the hands striking together towards the midline.  The
> loss of pronation could, in such a strike, decrease the chance of slippage.
> Is there any functional evidence that the arms worked in this way?
> 
> And, while we are on this, is Tyrannosaurus in the same boat?
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