Re: Theropod beaks again

["T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com>]

--- Aspidel <aspidel@wanadoo.be> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've thought a bit about the issue of beaks.
> Let's take e.g. _Velociraptor_: the shape of the snout and the dentary seems
> to me a bit odd to have had a rhamphotheca:
> http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/dbms-witmer/images/Velociraptor02.JPG
> 
> Does anyone know a bird (Neornithes) with jaws having such a shape?

For that matter, is there any extant animal, beaked or otherwise, with jaws
shaped like that?

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