Re: Dromaeosaurid tails/tales - help

["Ray Stanford" <dinotracker@earthlink.net>]

    Tim Williams asked, "Can anyone point me in the direction of an article
or illustration that restores _Deinonychus_ leaping upon larger prey (such
as _Tenontosaurus_)? In other words, _Deinonychus_ is jumping into the air,
and perhaps using its tail for stability."

    On page 310 of Robert Bakker's 1986 book,  THE DINOSAUR HERESIES, there
is a drawing of such, and, prescientiently, the Deinonychus (as well as the
other dinosaur) has feathers.  :-o  (But, that's no longer a heresy.)

Ray Stanford

"You know my method.  It is founded upon the observance of trifles." --
Sherlock Holmes in The Boscombe Valley Mystery

----- Original Message -----
From: "Williams, Tim" <TiJaWi@agron.iastate.edu>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 7:31 PM
Subject: Dromaeosaurid tails/tales - help




Can anyone point me in the direction of an article or illustration that
restores _Deinonychus_ leaping upon larger prey (such as _Tenontosaurus_)?
In other words, _Deinonychus_ is jumping into the air, and perhaps using its
tail for stability.

Thanks in advance

Tim