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Hi all,
For those who read French, this paper is still not
completely inaccurate!
An example: IIRC, there's been a discussion a while
ago about the feathers on dromie's arms. This study of Archie still tells that
feathers were attached to digits II (and even III) of the manus, so if dromies
are secondary flightless birds derived, IMHO it's likely that dromaeosaurs and
troodontids wore at least little feathers on at least digit II, as you can see
in Brett Boot's restorations, _Utahraptor_ for example: http://home.att.net/~gondwana/Gondwana/Images/Utahraptors.jpg or
in Luis Rey's new drawings: http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~luisrey/html/reappra.htm .
And that's how I think I'll draw dromaeosaurs and
troodontids from now on.
Friendly - Luc J. "Aspidel" BAILLY.
From: Danvarner@aol.com
Also I was delighted to see that Ilja has
found and added M. Reichel's absolutely breath-taking pen and ink illustrations
and paper about Archaeopteryx. I've seen a couple of Reichel's magnificent
pterosaur restorations before, but these pen and inks are dazzling and it's
terribly unfortunate that Reichel's art has been so overlooked. This is from
1941! He's in the Pantheon! See it at:
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~nieuwlnd/source6.htm |
