Re: AMNH PRESS RELEASE ERROR?

["Jordan Mallon" <j_mallon@hotmail.com>]

> From: "Ray Stanford" <dinotracker@earthlink.net>

>     To quote:

> "The researchers have identified the fossil animal as a dromaeosaur, a
> small, fast-running dinosaur closely related to Velociraptor with a >sickle 
> >claw on its middle toe and stiffening rods in its tail."

>     Dromaeosaurs have the 'terrible claw' on digit II, and I cannot 
> >conceive of how this can be called "its middle toe" with any precision.

Reminds me of that line that Grant recites in JP: "...and he slashes at you 
with this: a six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the middle toe."

I love that part. :)

-Jordan Mallon

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