Scipionyx

[Luis Rey <luisrey@ndirect.co.uk>]

Can anybody enlighten me about the current cladistics  of Scipionyx. I'm
just back from a seminar in Benevento (including a massive Italian
blackout) and a quick visit to Pietraroja where I was surprised to see
that some of the restorations still show Scipionyx as a dromaeosaur. I
know it is understood as a basal maniraptoran, but given that it's a
juvenile... just how primitive?

Some people in Pietraroja would also like to know...

Talking about  SVPCA... everybody was out of breath as a gigantic three
dimensional CT scan of the brain of Archaeopteryx started to rotate,
floating in space on top of all of us. Patricio Dominguez really blew
the mind of everybody.... You could feel the tension in the hall!
They definitively stole the show from that absolutely gigantic theropod
hand that Darren and Hutt are studying  and that in itself was a hard
act to follow.... we were almost awaiting the arrival of Godzilla
afterwards.

And we were much more less than impressed with Paul Maderson overbearing
David Unwin with loud "... but David how can you say pterosaurs had
hairrrrr....!!! They had SCALES!!!"

Luis Rey

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