Those Clumsy Ol' Therapods!

[garrison@efn.org (Garrison Hilliard)]

*** Dinosaurs took tumbles while hunting - magazine

Some big dinosaurs often tripped and broke their ribs while chasing
their prey, New Scientist magazine said Thursday. Bruce Rothschild of
the Arthritis Center of Northeast Ohio in Youngstown studied the
family of two-legged dinosaurs known as Therapods, which includes the
deadly Tyrannosaurus rex. He X-rayed fossil skeletons and found that
ribs from some specimens of a smaller species known as Allosaurus
showed the kind of fractures that would have been caused by a belly
flop on to hard ground while running. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2553759482-a1c