RE: Speculative dino species

["Srnka, Christopher P." <Srnka.Christopher@mayo.edu>]

A list-wide project would be nice...any other takers? Perhaps we could play
out a few "what if" scenarios on a message board somewhere, so artwork could
be displayed....I got on this kick after doing some sketches of what I
thought might have been another evolutionary path for dromaeosaurids....

http://www.comixmatrix.com/artists/image.asp?id=266385

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> From:         Daniel Bensen
> Sent:         Friday, July 27, 2001 1:51 PM
> To:   Srnka, Christopher P.
> Cc:   'dinosaur@usc.edu'
> Subject:      Re: Speculative dino species
> 
> 
> >>just wondering how other feel about this, depicting species that never
> existed (but might have, if given the chance) or even depicting
> speculative
> "missing links" ( something of a misnomer, i know). <<
> 
> I love the idea, and even think that HP Greg Paul was a little
> conservative,
> not allowing for much change in the dinosaurs in an additional 65 million
> years
> of evolution (I really like the grass-eating hadrosaurs, by the way).
> Another
> person who has toyed with the idea is Dougal Dixon (who actually published
> a
> book _New Dinosaurs_ on the subject, with arboreal coelurosaurs,
> terrestrial
> pterosaurs, and giant ammonites).
> 
> Are we thinking of a list-wide project, here?  If so, I'm definitely in.
> 
> Dan
> 
>