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Re: T-rex: muscles on the hindlimb.

To: aspidel@wanadoo.be
Subject: Re: T-rex: muscles on the hindlimb.
From: Dino Guy Ralph <dinoguyralph@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:50:39 -0700
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The more distant foot is clenched as that of the raised foot of a perching
bird.  Instead, I recommend letting the toes droop as the toes of ostriches
and emus do, since it is highly unlikely that tyrannosaurs were adapted for
perching.  See Gregory S. Paul's _Predatory Dinosaurs of the World_ or
Eadweard Muybridge's _Animal Locomotion_ (for ostrich plates).

--------Ralph W. Miller III
            ralph.miller@alumni.usc.edu

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