Protoceratops forelimbs

["Michael Purvis" <vraptor@gte.net>]

> > This something that I've asked paleontologist for the past few years. I
> think people think that 
> > just because it was a plant eater it was a passive animal. But I think
an
> aggressive Protoceratops 
> > isn't something that is far fetched. When museum's reconstruct a
> protoceratops they have it's legs 
> > sprawling. This is far from the truth. Their legs should be directly
> under them. This also means 
> > they were swifter then orginally thought.
> > 
  
  This is where I ran into a problem a few months back... when mounting a
 cast of a baby Proto, my biology consultant stopped me from mounting the
 legs directly under the body, insisting that there was no way the muscles
 could attach properly to operate the legs unless they were in a
 semi-sprawl.