Re: Bambiraptor complete!

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> With
> feathers _that_ long, I suppose it might have blown its prey away before
it
> could reach it...

I forgot that there may be a way out of this. The above only applies when
*Bambiraptor* uses a wing stroke to catch its prey. If it extends its arms
straightly forward, however, without lateral and medial excursions, the
problem is almost completely reduced away. Is that possible from shoulder
anatomy etc.?

BTW, according to http://www.bambiraptor.com/Pages/Foot.html the sickle claw
is slightly bigger and much more strongly curved. In the reconstruction in

Donald F. Glut: Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia Supplement 2, McFarland 2001 (in
the book it says 2002... very strange)

it is even larger than that.