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RE: BAKKER'S BRONTOPHAGY

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Williams, Tim
>
> I know that the good Dr Holtz has proposed that dromies attacked
> their prey
> wolverine-style; and the "Fighting Dinosaurs" skeletons shows a
> _Velociraptor_ with its sickle-claw poised dangerously close to
> _Protoceratops_'s throat.  I'm partial to the idea (inspired by Ostrom's
> reconstruction of _Deinonychus_ in the '70's) that dromies leaped into the
> air and used all four feet when engaging live prey.

Not that the two are mutually exclusive...

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
                Vertebrate Paleontologist
Department of Geology           Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
University of Maryland          College Park Scholars
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