Re: Kakuru

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

John Conway wrote:
> 
> A couple of weeks ago I asked the list for any new thoughts on _Kakuru_,
> because I had to do a restoration. Here it is (based almost entirely on
> _Avimimus_):

Some more recent observations suggest a similarity with Ingenia as well
(hence my attempt at an avimimid-early oviraptorosaurian hybrid).

> 
> http://homepage.mac.com/john_conway/kakuru.jpg
> 
> Any comments are welcome. (Although any inaccuracies are due to the fact
> that this is _Kakuru_, not _Avimimus_. :-))

Hey - as long as the legs are long and slender, anything goes. :)

> 
> Basing a restoration on one bone reminds me of a Monty Python skit:
> "from this single part" (clearly a human big-toe) "scientists have been
> able to reconstruct the entire animal" pans to a shot of an
> elephant-like animal with the toe as a nose.

Art imitating life? Sounds like the Crystal Palace iguanodon sculpture!

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Dann Pigdon                   Australian Dinosaurs:
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