Re: alvarezsaurid arms

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

Oyvind,
    "Tiny" avian??  A six-foot long Patagonykus was hardly tiny (maybe you 
are thinking of the smaller Patagopteryx, but even that wasn't particularly 
tiny).  I'd sure hate to have a Patagonykus jabbing one of its claws into my 
chest or back.
               :-)
     Anyway, termite mounds aren't quite as hard when they have been rained 
upon, and the climate was generally less dry back in the Cretaceous.  And if 
it was really hungry, a determined Patagonykus could probably attack even 
the hardest of mounds by tunnelling under it and then up into the soft 
interior.
          ---Cheers,  Ken
*****************************************
> From: "Øyvind M. Padron" <gorgosaur@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: gorgosaur@hotmail.com
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: alvarezsaurid arms
> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:29:48 +0100
>
> I'm going to make a picture of Patagonykus, ripping open a termites nest, 
> but then it struck my mind that the walls of there nests are extremely 
> hard;
> could this tiny avian really rip open these hard walls just like that?
>
> -DinosØMP
> ---------
> _________________________________________________________________



_________________________________________________________________
MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: 
http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx