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RE: Ruben Strikes Back

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> ekaterina amalitzkaya
>
> In anycase given these new trends it may be worthwhile to objectively
> publish a more attenuated version of the hypothesis posted by
> Dinogeorge in
> more visible print- the secondary terrestriality of maniraptorans but not
> all theropods.

Whoa, Flashback 1988!!

This "attenuated version" of Dinogeorge's hypothesis is in fact Greg Paul's
hypothesis from "Predatory Dinosaurs of the World"!  (And was the
inspiration for George's own expanded version...).

In recent conferences Greg Paul has been elaborating on this concept,
updating it with the new Chinese discoveries.

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