Re: Doin the Theropod Nod

[dbensen <dbensen@gotnet.net>]

>>To bring this back to the animals most of us are here to talk about, I
would suggest that most dinosaurs -- even most theropods -- did *not*
"do the pigeon".  More probably they (like us) retained the
extra-ocular muscles that evolved before the evolution of calcified
skeletons, thus making these head-bobbing movements unnecessary.<<
So, if dinosaurs didn't need to bob their heads, would they need to cock
their heads like birds do when they want to look closely at something?  If
dinosaurs could move their eyes within their orbits, then the wouldn't
need to do that right?

You know, we ought to email those disney people and tell them not to make
their dinosaurs' heads bob, which they might be doing.

Dan