Re: feet and toe's

[Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>]

You might be interested in this article:
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/1998-99/98-123.html

with this animation:
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/1998-99/98-123.mov

or this series of illustrations:
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/1998-99/98-123g.html

which nicely illustrates theropod toesies.

bert.dol@philips.com wrote:
> Last week I took a ride in an elevator, bored as I could have been. It was a 
> type of elevator which has no door in front so you can see the wall in front 
> of you 'going down'. I pretended my hand were theropod feet and made my 
> tracks on the wall. I
> noticed however that the last part of my hand leaving the wall were my 
> fingers. So, after this short introduction let me ask my question:
> Is there a relation between the possible running speed of a theropod and the 
> size/shape/etc of it's toe's? Or maybe it's feet? I know there is a relation 
> between the size of the bones in the legs and the angle between them, but 
> what about toe's? As far
> as I know the last part leaving the ground when running (or walking for that 
> matter) are the toe's...



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