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Re: raptor

An interesting response...

Discovery Channel spells it "Raptor" and claims that their paleo consultants
approve of that.

This seems to me something like the prevalence of  "T-rex" in book titles
because publishers claim that it's easier to read that "T. rex"



Ken Kinman wrote:

>      I would definitely not spell raptor with a capital "R" in the middle of
> sentence as though it was a formal taxon.  Even avian raptors would form a
> polyphyletic taxon, since the owls are not closely related to (i.e., in an
> exclusive clade with) hawks or other raptors.--

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