Re: Dromaeosaur hunting strategy : cat style, dog style ??

[Mike Taylor <mike@seatbooker.net>]

> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 08:21:55 -0400
> From: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>
> 
> You may be interested in this link, from the Precambrian of the
> dinosaur list...
> http://www.cmnh.org/dinoarch/1994Nov/msg00148.html

Thanks for this ref.  Re-reading this (I think it's been mentioned
before in the DML Eocene) I found myself wondering whether you still
think that "the body of anatomical evidence points to the adaptations
of tyrannosaurids as being [...]  pursuit-and-bite predatory
features"?

In the light of Hutchison & Garcia's Big Chicken work, I mean.

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