Allow the speculation to begin!
The following is a literally a 30 second sketch so please be kind,I plan on doing a far better drawing next week sometime.
"A dromeosaurid that has evolved to fill the niche that today is occupied by Ibis and other wading birds"
heres the picture
http://paleozone.homestead.com/files/ibisdromeo.JPG
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Stacey Burgess
Corona Borealis
Paleozone
----Original Message Follows----
From: Daniel Bensen
Reply-To: dbensen@gotnet.net
To: aspidel
>>IMHO, we don't know anything about evolution of the vegetation without a K/T
mass extinction!
I tell this for those who wanna draw speculative dinosaurs in speculative
landscapes.
Without K/T mass extinction, did grasses appear? And what about evoluted
families like Lamiaceae, Asteraceae, or orchids?
And what about fungi? Well, well.........................<<
I agree with Aspidel that the evolution of plants is _very_ important, here.
Perhaps, for simplicity, we should assume that botanical evolution in the
dinosaur world was the same as in the real world---that would certainly make
things easier.
Dan
