RE: The Epidendrosaurus and aye-aye

["Daniel Bensen" <dbensen@bowdoin.edu>]

>> Can't the latter [Incisivosaurus] have been a normal boring
plant-eater that fed on herbs and fallen ginkgo fruits? :-)<<
But then why bother with those weird teeth?  If it's just a regular
herbivore, why not have therizinosaur-type dentition---lots of little
teeth?  It must have been specialized for _something_.  Cracking through
nuts?  (Ginkgo nuts, by the way, don't require much in the way of teeth
to eat---they have roughly the consistency of plums.  That assumes, of
course, that anyone would want to eat the nasty things.  They smell like
vomit).  

>>Better usage of existing holes
might circumvent the need for making holes with one's own teeth... but
somehow... ~:-|<<
Yes, it's a long series of assumptions to make based upon not much
evidence.  Maybe the long fingers are just how these dinosaurs'
grow---long fingers and big eyes become less proportionally huge as the
rest of the animal grows to fit them.  

Dan