Re: Forelimbs of "Terror Birds"

["Nicholas Gardner" <n_gardner637@hotmail.com>]

<<The phorusrhacid, for those who missed it, had normal, tiny 
psilopterid-like wings. All prettied up and colored to look like a secretary 
bird.>>


I hope "psilopterid-like wings" means a nasty alular claw because that was 
definitely present in the documentary.  Did anyone who saw the documentary 
happen to notice that the birds continual got the worst parts?  Two 
eight-foot tall birds should be able to whip up on a lone *Smilodon*, right? 
 Instead, they squawk and run for their lives.  It seemed to me that too 
little attention was payed to the great avians.

Nicholas Gardner
E-Mail: n_gardner637@hotmail.com
dino.250x.com





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