Had a lovely new year, best regards to all speccers, and here's to years more of spec fun! I'll be moving my neocene work, and other pieces of art to my DA ...
... horses... ... Not bad, the top ones are pretty much what I had in mind, only I think the body should be a little longer and the anal fin should continue on...
... Oh, Emile! I talked to an Ichthyologist friend of mine, some pipefish can move their tails vertically and horizontally, often colning their tail,...
I have been a longtime admirered of the Specworld site, so I finally decided to join and see if I can contribute. I am an anthropologist/archaeologist by...
Welcome onlist!!! Out of laziness (I'm back in Paris, but not in my lab; I have to use a French keyboard here...) I'll provide you with a much more optimistic...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 4, 2007 6:28 pm
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... I second the sentiment. and very nice essay. ... too carnivorous for my taste, the de-ossified tail was what made me wary. ... mysterious, maybe they...
I myself had some worries about how such an aggressive and fairly large social species could go undetected and/or unstudied. Perhaps you are right, they...
... It isn't; it's just not stiffened the dromaeosaur way. That's expected -- oviraptorosaurs have flexible tails by default. On the other hand, the, um, hands...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 4, 2007 8:59 pm
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Hmm. I actually thought dromaeosaurs could rotate the hands at the wrist. I guess I've seen one too many bad reconstructions showing them holding dead mice...
... oh. ... ah. okay. ... want to crunch.) true...maybe the crunchercrocs are *why* they have such defensive instincts when it comes to bones: they can't kill...
... Holding something with _two_ hands works; the palms face each other. Holding something with _one_ hand works for *Bambiraptor* but not for *Deinonychus*...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 4, 2007 9:59 pm
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... Except... unless you are a tyrannosaur or maybe a thebird flock, crunchercrocs are invincible. Armored and all. -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70%...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 4, 2007 10:46 pm
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Thanks for your words all:) To Tiina over her bipedal monodactyl jackalopes,well, according to this new paper by Janis C. and company in the 2006 SVP lists of...
... Coyote chiming in with a belated "Happy New Year" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the...
... I third that. ... Indeed. ... appealing ... Could they be overlooked in the initial flurry of excitement over big dinosaurs? Or they could live in really...
... Not a paper, just an abstract. ... I can't remember having read that. Could you retype the abstract? Through the coincidence of a missing key, I don't have...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 5, 2007 4:59 pm
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... welcome! :D so I finally ... "sickle claws"? otherwise David and Rodlox addressed almost all other concerns. Everything else is fine, but for the presumed ...
... Hmm, the only other possibility is quadrupedality, seeing as sthenurines are indeed short-trunked and long armed. So maybe they were quadrupedal bounders,...
... <patiently awaits the paper> ... you have a point. ... bingo. ... I'm cravenly ignorant of *Lagostrophus fasciatus* exact placement among 'roos, but didn't...
... I don't know, I mean Tiina, and now you have given us something to think about. I guess brown river selkies could be selters, but what of the sea...
... You raise a good point. NA is practically off-limits except for the Pacific Northwest coast (I think) and Central America, but I think SA could be the...
... To learning cellular and developmentary genetics... ... And a couple more megabytes that I will hopefully be able to upload after the 19th... it really...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 13, 2007 1:15 pm
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... Sounds engrossing... ... upload after the 19th... it really sucks to be the limiting factor. Oh, don't worry about that. ... way more beautiful, frankly. I...
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