Re: Re: Raptor Intelligence

[Jim Foley <jimf@strauss>]

From: th81 <Thomas_R_HOLTZ@umail.umd.edu>
 > 
 > AVOID THE 'ROID!
 > 
 > I really like Dale, and he has supported my work, but I REALLY dislike the
 > 'roid.  Not as an excerise, but because it wound up looking so humanoid.
 > Troodontids already had a bipedal gait and manipulative hands, and given
 > that many dinosaurs had heavy skulls but retained a horizontal spine, I do
 > not think the totally erect posture is justified.

Add my vote of disapproval to the dinosauroid; it ended up looking way
too much like a human in a lizard skin.


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