Re: Big birds on Paleoworld

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 96-01-08 12:56:51 EST, ornstn@inforamp.net (Ronald
Orenstein) writes:

>This is news to me (I gather it's a recent discovery).  Details?
>Referrences?  Certainly the living seriemas are not put together like that.
>Were the claw better developed tan on (say) a hoatzin chick?

It was news to me, too; but then again, I'm not a paleornithologist. The
current JVP has a little feature on _Titanis walleri_, the Florida
phorusrhacid (-oid?) and there is a ref to Chambers's article in the biblio.
Perhaps that's the one? I gathered from the show that although the claws were
there, so was the fused carpometacarpus...!