Re: On the Issue of Sprawling Dromaeosaurs

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Christopher Collinson (Chris_Collinson@monarch.net) wrote:

<First this wren is not sprawling in the same manner that is associated
with the four wing sprawl hypothesis, where the femur would rotate forward
and up/out.> 

  Actually, the leg sprawl idea has it, at least from Xu's perspective, in
that the femur would rotate up and out, as in Paul's theory, without going
through a forward movement.

  Cheers,


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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)


        
                
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