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Re: K Vultures? (Was Re: Regarding Spinosaurus)

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Subject: Re: K Vultures? (Was Re: Regarding Spinosaurus)
From: "Mickey_Mortimer11" <Mickey_Mortimer11@email.msn.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 18:03:22 -0800
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T. Mike Keesey wrote-

> _Enantiornis_ is supposed to have been about the size of a vulture. As to
> whether it had any adaptations for scavenging, I have no idea.

Nor does anyone- the taxon is based on a scapula, coracoid and humerus.  Not
much to judge behavior by.  It is one of the largest known Mesozoic birds
though, at about one meter in length.

Mickey Mortimer

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