RE: How did dinosaurs walk?

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Dora Smith
>
> Dinosaur bipedal design is very interesting.  Instead of walking upright
> like humans, they walked bent over - and used big tails for balance.
> Apparently.

Yeah. Humans are so wierd...

(Actually, we are. Dinosaurs are more "normal" in this context).

> I wonder how much ancient dinosaurs walked like modern ones - awkwardly but
> nimbly and well.

What you wonder is a large part of what Steve Gatesy's research career has been 
about. Check archives of DML or scholar.google.com
for more detail.

Take care,

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