Re: all that new stuff... :-o

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

David Marjanovic (david.marjanovic@gmx.at) wrote:

<GARGL!!! It is so exciting... The e of *Eshanosaurus*, however it's exactly 
pronounced, captures
greatly my emotions about it (it gives a lot more credibility to all those 
Jurassic dromaeosaur
and whatnot remains, the EJ and LTr bird footprints and some parts of 
*Protoavis*).>

  Cool your heels, bud ... :) You're like a giddy school boy.... haha.... Let's 
wait till the
paper is available for discussion, like most of us actually have it :)

<If just two hours ago, or less, someone had written "I have a new idea: 
Ornithomimosaurs were
filter feeders!!!" I'd have gone to great lengths to falsify this, desperately 
trying to find
sharp edges on their beaks, and now I have to learn that there were animals 
around for a long time
that fed like flamingos 

...

Hey!!! At last we know what ornithomimids were eating!>

  Hey...

  One, they probably did not feed like flamingos, but like (and get this) 
ducks, at least as far
as dabbling goes. Second off, they still do have sharp-edged beaks, as far as 
the bone is
concerned, so this does not discount _any_ form of feeding.


=====
Jaime A. Headden

  Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhr-gen-ti-na
  Where the Wind Comes Sweeping Down the Pampas!!!!

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