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I just wrote...
Sure I can.
Kevin Padian, Armand J. de Ricqlès & John R. Horner:
Dinosaurian growth rates and bird origins, Nature
412, 405 -- 408 (26 July 2000)
While I am at it, the measurements I gave for Repenomamus
and Gobiconodon sp. nov. are _utter nonsense_, based on the wrong
scale. The former's high and robust lower jaw is actually shown
in real size and 8.2 cm long from the tip of the broken symphysis to the tip of
the angular process, 1.7 cm high just behind the last molar and 3.2 cm high at
the highest preserved place (from the broken coronoid process downwards). That
of G. sp. nov. is only about 3.8 cm long. The quite short-snouted
complete skull of R. is about 11.4 cm long. If it had the same
proportions as the much smaller Jeholodens (which isn't too probable)
it was about 70 cm long without and about 140 cm long with tail -- this is
almost incredible, not even small for a dog. Anyway, based on the lower jaw
alone R. can IMHO easily have opened even megaloolithid eggs, and
Microraptor fled it.
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9. Thou shalt interpret thy results
with C A U T I O N. When thou usest isotopes, thou shalt remember
that "not everything that counteth counteth". When thou usest enzymes, thou
shalt remember that "thou shalt not waste clean thinking upon dirty enzymes".
When thou usest a spectrophotometer, thou shalt remember that "a difference
existeth between a L I V E R cell and a B E C K M A
N cell".
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