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Subject: RE: "veloci-vulture"
LOL: http://www.seismosaur.com/Case16.html
A _Velociraptor_
painted like a vulture!
As we speak about
feathers... Friendly - LJB.
That
is one of the WORST illustrations I’ve seen of
Velociraptor.
Wait a
minute -- it isn't of Velociraptor but of Bambiraptor ("I
based this drawing of a raptor on Bambyraptor from the Jones site"), even
though the skull above certainly is of Velociraptor
mongoliensis. It's somehow strange that there are actually
illustrations of it that are _too_ birdlike... The arms are probably too long,
the metatarsi are far too long and thin, and for sitting in such a position it
would need long, opposed halluces that it didn't have -- in the painting it has
_none at all_. To get wherever it is sitting it must have flown. The author
whose name I can't find anywhere is certain that Bambiraptor was
able to fly; while I'm much less sure on this, even then fingers I and
II should be visible as in Archaeopteryx and
Confuciusornis.
I’ve
volunteered to write a chapter in an up and coming SVP book about internet
sites.
A very
good idea. Good luck!!!
This
is a good candidate for who you can’t trust everything you see or read on the
internet. Deinonychus hunted in packs of 50 to 100! Where the %$##% did that
come from?
That's
terribly simple -- the author speculates on very little, er, evidence and
then builds matter-of-fact statements on this: "Some of them probably hunted in
packs, and some of those packs were huge. I estimate that Deinonychus,
from Montana, may have hunted in packs of 50 to 200 animals. I don’t believe
that they hunted as a coordinated pack. [...] How many 100 kilogram
Deinonychi [sic] could have fed on a 1,000 kilogram Tenontosaurus?
How big would a pack have to be to be able to afford losing one or two members
at a kill?"
Is
there any country where the scientific method has a fixed place in compulsory
lessons in school?
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5. Thou shalt purify every E N Z Y M E according
to the scripts of the J B C. Thou shalt obey every jot and tittle of
these directions save one. Thou shalt not discard the P R E C I P I T A T
E and save the supernatant S O L U T I O N (!), neither
shalt thou save the P R E C I P I T A T E and discard the
supernatant S O L U T I O N. Thou shalt save them B O T
H. Thou shalt preserve them until thou hast recovered a minimum of 120
percent of the original activity (thou shalt remember that crude extracts are
filled with inhibitors). Only then thou shalt and thou must discard inactive
fractions. For lo! even after two score years thou shalt not find any
resurrection of enzyme activity. Thy fractions are still in the deep-freeze.
Thou hast F O R G O T T E N to L A B E L them.
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