Re: Dinosauir Beaks (was Re: DINOSAUR digest 2427)

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

John McLoughlin (darwincr@laplaza.org) wrote:

<Are there any examples of preservation of non-theropod beaks, e.g.,
ceratopid? Among the theropods, do any oviraptorids show beak
preservation?>

  Some keratin has been recovered in *Edmontosaurus annectens*, as a large
overhanging and deep premaxillary beak structure, and in *Dromeciomimus*
and *Gallimimus*, but not any oviraptorids that I am aware of, though I
suspect there has not been a concerted effort to LOOK for it.

  Cheers,

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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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