I had heard that some of the suspected basal Dromaeosaurids were in fact, closer to birds!!! (e.g. *Sinornithosaurus* & *Achillobator*) So, that would've screwed the current popular phylogeny up. Steven Mahon __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com