Mike's comments can be more generalized:
For those going to watch the show, a warning:
The documentarians often take anything that any of the talking heads
speculated about, and transformed these into declarative statements of
fact. In some cases this is particularly egregious, because I strongly
disagree with some of these statements and believe the facts are
against
some of these (say, about tyrannosaurid cranial kinesis...) and they
present these as facts rather than suppositions.
That, and the skeletal reconstructions seem to be from the committee
for
the prevention of postorbitals and squamosals in saurischians...
But the Deinonychus have feathers, so I'm happy with that.
--
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