Got my stuff abit mixed up, so expect the post soon still, some of those deltathere's i dont mind leaving, that vertical one for instance, i'll write them up...
Guys! A little feedback please. I am trying to decide by how much I have erred in fashioning the feeding tentacles of the Mantasquid's preoral chamber. I think...
I have a few mintues and I can add some thoughts: Mantasquid. I'm not sure how much flexibility you have, but you might want to fiddle with the gnathobranches...
Hi again Forgot to mention, i got "magnificent Mihirungs", what-a-book, wow! They really were GIANT GEESE, especially genyornis had a very goose like skull in...
Hi Mr Lampkins, Cool name :} Anyhoo, U are a ubercool sculptor I'm Tim, You'll hear me rattling about here with my drawings throughout all my spare minutes, so...
... An, not a. Ü is a pure vowel. <g> ... How come they exist at all? How come the fells haven't diversified into all sizes before the gobblers arrived in the...
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May 6, 2004 4:08 pm
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... pft. ... analogues!! ... into all ... maybe the Gobblers shoved the Fells out of the larger niches....or maybe the Fells can't (for some reason) get larger...
... And how can a stork-like being shove an... abelisaur-like one out of its niche? ... That's because of their diet -- and they can't change that because of...
David Marjanovic
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May 7, 2004 9:05 am
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... if i want a grammar lesson i'll ask for it :P ... analogues!! ... into all ... BIFLI!! they are nifty!! and ozgawd likes e'm too, Sheesh! Anyhoo, something...
... diversified ... niches....or ... Voice of reason again my muse! {you are you know} They stayed small because they were eaten by gobblers when they arrived,...
since it's a bit quiet lately... would Spec be vastly different if there hadn't been a Cretaceous? just gone right from Jurassic into Tertiary times? just...
... KilledThreads@yahoogroups.com, "piatnitskysaurus" <tdmorris@c...> ... is that going on my listing once I get a "parking space" in the Spec Pantheon? ... ...
... Certainly not, because that wasn't the voice of reason. :-) ... Nope. ... Due to competition with troodontids? Wait, this doesn't fit the non-tyrannosaurid...
David Marjanovic
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May 8, 2004 8:44 am
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... Pure pronounciation. No grammar. ... They are nifty. Just like docodonts. ... Small Congolese mokele: why not... though it shouldn't get as small as an ...
David Marjanovic
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May 8, 2004 9:31 am
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... Sick and busy as hell at the present... ... Well - the whole debate is pretty much moot because there would be no pre-Quaternary fossil record for them or...
Sorta like NZ has a diverse collection of endemic tyrannine flycatchers - while Oz has 1 genus that is a recent Asian import. How'd they get to NZ while...
David Marjanovic
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May 8, 2004 3:13 pm
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... Yup - The NZ wrens (Xenicidae/Acanthisittidae) are suboscines/tyrannines. Brian...
... Ah, that's what you mean! I thought you meant real New World suboscines (Tyrannides)... Suboscines are paraphyletic. Acanthisittidae is the sistergroup to...
David Marjanovic
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May 8, 2004 4:29 pm
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... how so? I mean, pretty much all the K-T clades were present at the end of the Jurassic...(protoceratopsians too?)...so how would the base stock be...
... diversified ... i'm unsure what to make of that. ... to ... the ... small as an ... too many ... before the ... reason for ... diverse in ... faunfowl a ...
... no ... the ... in ... from ... Given ... them ... when ... exactly, that's really what i meant, the smallest are finch size, largest are magpie-ish size. ...
... Those wrens so rock! kinda how i modelled my fell size. By the way, fell was not just from rodlox's original idee or the lord of rings stuff But also...
... KilledThreads@yahoogroups.com, "piatnitskysaurus" <tdmorris@c...> ... I missed those parts of the Fells. sorry. ... 'lunacy'? ... 'most'??? ANY of the...
... Lots of clades died out during the K. And... ceratopsians are currently unknown from the J (*Archaeoceratops* is from the Tuchengzi Fm, which has turned...
David Marjanovic
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May 9, 2004 10:36 am
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got a question -- if the infants in _VAN HELSING_ were tetrapods, which clade on Spec would you put them in? ... KilledThreads@yahoogroups.com,...