Other dromaeosaurs

This new, undescribed specimen has unexpected hollownesses in a couple of places in the rear portion of its head. See if you can spot them.

I hadn't heard about this one before, but it makes a nice complement to the snoozing troodont featured in the Canadian Jnl of Earth Science '93. When rich, I will have them at either end of my mantelpiece. Some long-necked dinobirds slept with their heads on their backs. This specimen shows the top teeth projecting down to the bottom of the lower jaw on both sides. Another specimen elsewhere in the museum shows the teeth projecting below the lower jaw ventral margin. It seems very likely that the teeth showed in life. They may have had gums, but if they did, they didn't always hide the teeth.



The original type specimen of Velociraptor (AMNH 6515 - as seen on p.25 of "Predatory Dinosaurs of the World") is in the exhibition.

"They call me Mr. Thin Tibs!" This cast of Bambiraptor doesn't come from the AMNH at all but from the Oxford University museum. However, I was startled to notice how thin the tibia/fibula seemed to be. Maybe the tibia has been lost and the creature reconstructed with just the fibula, though this seems unlikely, but if that's how thin that part of the leg skeleton was, I'd say this creature would have been in serious trouble in a high fall...unless it had a parachute. It's also quite interesting that the humeri have been reconstructed sticking up in the air like that. I don't know off hand what angle Bambi's glenoid pointed in, but if there is evidence for that being a typical angle, I'd say this thing used wings.



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