RE: First evidence for the frameshift hypothesis?

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@umd.edu>]

> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] 
> On Behalf Of David Marjanovic
>
> Xu Xing & James Clark: Homologies in the hand of theropods, 
> SVP meeting abstracts 2008, 163A

[snip]

> Discuss.

How about waiting for the published paper, so everyone can evaluate the
details... (I agree, though: this is a major find!)

> 
> Incidentally, the new ceratosaur is _yet_ _another_ animal 
> that's convergent on [possibly embargoed]. That ecomorphotype 
> is slowly getting annoying. 

Pictures of skeletons of this or a related taxon can be seen in the July
2008 National Geographic article.

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