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Re: Dinosaur gives you the finger!

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Subject: Re: Dinosaur gives you the finger!
From: Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:28:00 +1100
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On Wed, Jan 26th, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Sam Barnett <sam.horus@gmail.com> wrote:

> What's with all the "first known one-fingered dinosaur" references?  I
> thought Mononykus was the first known.

Other alvarezsaurs had two other vestigial digits per hand. Linhenykus seems to 
have lost them 
completely.

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Dann Pigdon
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