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Well, I checked out the "Walking with
Dinosaurs" web site, including some of the video clips, and it seems pretty
neat. The graphics are *very* cool, and the information isn't perfect, but
who is? (One nice thing is the keratin spikes on _Diplodocus_. I've
never seen that animated anywhere else.)
Anyhue, there are a few things I'm wondering about
"Walking", the answers to which I wasn't able to find anywhere.
Can anyone out there give me a hand?
First of all, regarding feathers. Only three small
coelurosaurs were pictured on the web site (_Ornitholestes_, _Utahraptor_ and
_Iberomesornis_) and only the latter was shown with feathers - it is, after all,
a bird. (However, _Ornitholestes_ did seem to have some bumpy pattern on
its neck; could that have been feathers or proto-feathers?) Now, _O._ and
_U._ could *conceivably* be viewed as too primitive and too big for feathers,
respectively, but I might just be grasping at straws here. Anyone know if
any other small meat-eaters will sport feathers on the show, and if not, why
not?
Secondly, is this the same BBC dinosaur show that artists
Daren Horley and Luis Rey were working on? (See _Prehistoric Times_, issue
#28/29)
Finally, regarding a couple of thyreophorans: Is that
_Polacanthus_ consistent with William Blows' research? And are the tail
spikes on that _Stegosaurus_ pointing the right way? I couldn't
tell.
At any rate, I can't wait to see that show.
Ciao!
-Grant
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