Re: Follow-up: the truth about killer dinosaurs

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

> > David Marjanovic wrote: 'Why does almost everyone who draws beakless
> > feathered dinosaurs let the  feathers stop at the lacrimal? <rant>'
> >
> > Because modern predatory birds' feathers stop at the lacrimal! The maxilla
> > is almost always naked, but it's easy to miss as the max is so reduced in
> > favour of that huge great beaky pre-max.

Well, not all coelurosaurs are comparable in ecology, and... doesn't the 
maxilla take part in the beak?

> Feathers are a bitch to clean.  For this reason, the head and necks of
> carrion-eating birds are almost entirely devoid of feathers.

Yep -- but that doesn't look applicable to a lot of nonavian theropods. 
Besides, many of them had long arms and could thus groom themselves with 
their fingers.