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Every day with the Moveable Museum I visit
approximately 120 students (mostly 2nd & 4th graders)
With increasing regularity the following question
arises.
Did dinosaurs have
knees?
( When a 7 year old asks this you should add on
..... like mine. Which implies to me a kneecap/patella type knee
bone.)
The mounts at AMNH don't show patellas, but could
they? Do any sauropsids have a "knee" in this sense? or is it
strictly a synapsid feature?
please advise.
and thanks in advance.
Jenny Lando
Assistant Coordinator Moveable Museum/Paleontology of Dinosaurs Education Department American Museum of Natural History CPW @ 79th Street NYC NY 10024 mailto:jenny@amnh.org 212-769-5189 212-769-5329 (fax) http://www.amnh.org |