Re: Evidence For a Feathered Velociraptor...

[Dora Smith <villandra@austin.rr.com>]

I looked him up in Google.  I'm having trouble finding much that I have 
access to that is actually written by him.   I have his Scientific American 
book of dinosaurs, but he doesn't seem to go into his own theories there.

He does state that some of the coelusaurs had long arms.

I have noticed through time that there are big classes of bird-like animals 
that scientists can't seem to agree on whether they are birds or some other 
branch of coelusaurs.   I have also wondered if living birds are truly all 
recently related to each other, or if the traits we now know as defining 
birds evolved more than once.    If bird-like traits were so adaptive they 
might well have evolved more than once or evolved in a bigger family than 
today's birds.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
tiggernut24@yahoo.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guy Leahy" <xrciseguy@sbcglobal.net>
To: <villandra@austin.rr.com>; "Paula Goodman" <paulawilder@mac.com>
Cc: <michael@lovejoy-horses.co.uk>; <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: Evidence For a Feathered Velociraptor...


> --- Dora Smith <villandra@austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > It didn't occur to anybody that these animals once
> > had wings until they
> > started trying to explain why they have qill marks
> > on the bones of their
> > forelimbs.
>
> Er..well, Gregory S. Paul has been arguing for several
> years that some small theropods, particularly
> dromaeosaurs, were secondarily flightless:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Air-Evolution-Flight-Birds/dp/0801867630


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