From: "Veloci Raptor" <velociraptor@hot-shot.com>
Reply-To: velociraptor@hot-shot.com
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 20:50:41 -0500
Greetings there. I?m a bit of a lurker on the DML and this?ll be the first
time I?ve posted anything. ^_^
I?m a high school senior with an assignment to do an informational report.
If possible, I?d like to do one on the true dragons 8) Unfortunately, of
the more than 50 dinosaur books I own only two contain very specific
information on pterosaurs instead of just a basic overview. Of course, the
school library has no books specifically on Pterosauria (heck I own more
dino books then all of their reptile books combined! 8/ )
I also haven?t found very many reliable websites that get into the
specifics, like many websites do for dinos (for example ?<I>Adasaurus</I>
also has a strongly opisthopubic pelvis, like <I>Bambiraptor,
Sinornithosaurus, Velociraptor</I> and probably <I>Deinonychus</I>, unlike
the slightly opisthopubic condition in <I>Unenlagia</I> and the slightly
propubic condition in <I>Achillobator</I>.? - Details on <I>Adasaurus
mongoliensis</I> by Mickey Mortimer on the old Dinosauricon).
So, if someone could please recommend a good pterosaur book or website I
could use, I would be very grateful. I?d much rather do something that
interests me and requires research than just the same old dinosaur report
(hehe I?m probably the only person in a 10 mile radius that came name and
locate every bone in a <I>Velociraptor</I> skull ^_^)
So you all know, websites I?ve thus far utilized are The Pterosaur
Database, the pterosaur section on DinoData and Introduction to the
Pterosauria on the Berkeley website along with a few other species specific
articles on various dino-news sites.
Thanks again,
Velox Raptoress/April Smith
Walk with the wind,
Sing to the skies,
Wade through the blood,
And embrace the lies.
Breath is a song,
Life is a dance,
But watch your step,
Death follows your prance.
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