Re: FURRY SINODINOS

[ELurio@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/27/01 8:39:36 AM, darren.naish@port.ac.uk writes:

<< Another thing - the specimen is preserved as if squashed 
dorsoventrally, with the legs splayed out to the sides. This is really 
interesting and another effective refutation of one of the ABSRD 
[homage to Tim] school's arguments. Feduccia has claimed that birds 
can be preserved this way (it's common for frogs and pterosaurs also) 
because, unlike theropods, their bodies are dorsoventrally compressed 
and not deep and laterally compressed like those of theropods.  >>

Not really, we can't be sure if dromaeosaurs are actually theropods, or 
convergant protobirds. 

eric l.