Re: Theropod limbs - how mobile?

["Steven Coombs" <gasperex@hotmail.com>]

> > T.rex' forelimbs were powerfull, as is shown by
> > extensive studies on the musculature, but it's hands are capable of almost
> > nothing.
> >
> > Rutger Jansma

True, its hands are pretty well useless, but I wouldn't say they were 
capable of doing nothing. After all if its arms are estimated to lift 300+ 
LBS. If it was helping to lift its upper body (not all the help from its 
arms) or to cling on a carcass or to even cling onto a female during mating, 
its hands had to be used for something.

Steven Coombs
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