Re: Rahona ostromi

[tlford@ix.netcom.com]

On 03/19/98 15:13:48 you wrote:
>
>There's another story about Rahona ostromi on Fox News Wire, posted
>at 1:20 ET March 19, 1998, which quotes a doubter, Larry Martin of
>the University of Kansas, who maintains that it isn't a bird:
>"What they've got there is the rear end of a fairly typical
>dinosaur.  The only thing that makes it unique is that it has a
>fairly typical bird wing."  He said that because parts of the wing
>were found apart from the other bones, the remains might actually
>be a composite of a dinosaur and a bird.  "It really looks like
>they have a mixture of animals.  It turns out too good to be true."
>

At the last SVP, I was standing next to Larry Martin as he looked at the bird. 
I asked him what he 
thought of it, he said it was dinosaur and shruged his shoulders. He had no 
problem with it being 
a flying dinosaur then.

Tracy