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Re: Walking dromaeosaurs

From: "Nick Pharris"
> I'd say front-back head movement is likely, but most birds don't do the
tail
> movement:  it's a distinctive feature of this particular group of species,
as
> reflected both in the Latin "motacilla" ('moved-tail') and in the
> English "wagtail".

Wagtails have, well... a quite long tail. That's why I had this idea for
dromaeosaurs. And with the anatomy of the first tail vertebrae, such a
movement would have been possible IMHO.

Cheers - Aspidel.