Just Big Birds, Really

[poliphilo]

The dinosaur woman in Montana was cutting up ostriches. They're as close as you can get these days to a T Rex.

I've been trying to picture the T Rex with feathers. I don't think there's absolute proof it had them but the likelihood mounts. Those funny, stunted, little T Rex fore-arms- what if they were actually wings?  I can imagine them with plumage attached, for display.

The more we learn about dinosaurs  the less monstrous they seem. The dinosaur woman's mentor- top man in his field- said he thought of the T Rex as a sort of a vulture. 

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[butterscotch711.livejournal.com]

I heard recently that early humans' ecological niche may have been as bone marrow scavengers - say if some lions brought down a giraffe, we would wait for the lions to have their fill, and then wait for the hyenas to eat what was left of the meat, and then we would scurry out and break open the bones with our stone knives and eat the marrow.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, bone marrow.....