Re: Evidence For a Feathered Velociraptor...

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> > > "...help it maneuver while running..."

Aha!

The little guys might have had feathers to get them out of trouble but 
the big guys might have had feathers to turn and swoop after them. <<<

Not to toot my own horn, but:

Hartman, Scott. 2000. Primary and caudal feathers as locomotory 
adaptations in maniraptoran theropods. Journal of Vertebrate 
Paleontology, Vol. 20, Supplement to No. 3. pp. 47A.

Hartman, Scott. 2005. Estimating Ancestral Habitat and Selective 
Pressures Leading to the Origin of Avian Flight. Abstract volume of the 
II Latin American Congress of Vertebrate Paleontology.

And I didn't even have feathered theropod fossils when I presented the 
first one...

Scott Hartman
Science Director
Wyoming Dinosaur Center
110 Carter Ranch Rd.
Thermopolis, WY 82443
(800) 455-3466 ext. 230
Cell: (307) 921-8333

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