> And indeed, he didn't send that message to the list (or at least I
> never got it). Tim, be ashamed, you made the mistake I just made
> four hours earlier. List administrators, please consider deleting
> Tim's post.
No need to worry. It was meant for everyone.
To complicate things further, if deinonychosaurs used their feet for
grasping (as proposed by the Raptor Prey Restraint hypothesis) ,
then would we be able to distinguish trunk-climbing adaptations from
predatory ones?
In other words, would adaptations used by _Deinonychus_ to grasp and
hold onto large prey be that much different to adaptations used by
_Microraptor_ to scale a thick trunk? I'm not saying that
_Microraptor_ DID climb up trunks. But IF it did....would we know
from the morphology of the pes?