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RE: Acrocanthosaurus movement

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Amtoine Grant
>
>
> Lovely, has any work like this been done on megalosaurs like
> Torvosaurus/Megalosaurus or any spinosaurids? I'm dying to know what
> the capabilities of those huge manual claws were.

Christine Lipkin is working on the biomechanics of spinosaurid forelimbs (as 
mentioned at the "100 Years of T. rex" Symposium), but
has not published those results yet.

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