Re: Dermal coverings

["Matthew Troutman" <m_troutman@hotmail.com>]

<<Earlier this very evening I had an opportunity to examine casts of a new 
segnosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Utah. Whew! All I can say is, well, 
segnosaurs certainly are theropods after all--the slender, boomerang-shaped 
furcula shows this, as well as some of the other material--and I would now 
say they're likely even closer to avialan birds than dromaeosaurids 
are.There's even a chance they're closer to modern birds than Archaeopteryx 
is (based on the backward pubis, tooth shape in this specimen, and a few 
other features).>>

Wow, I don't know what to be more shocked about: the new therizinosaur or 
Dinogeorge's change in position!  Makes me wonder whether this is some sort 
of joke...

Matt Troutman
m_troutman@hotmail.com

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