Re: birds and dinosaurs

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting pheret <pheret@pheret.com>:

> do palentologists, et al., study their fossils with the realization that,
> especially if it is just one example of a creature, that it could be a
> fluke?

There are named "species" that do appear to be based on pathological individuals
of other species, if that's what you mean.  _Labrosaurus ferox_ is one example
(it's probably a deformed _Allosaurus fragilis_).

Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan