"I dromaeosauridi terricoli ricordano un modello predatorio felide non-cursorio (come lince e giaguaro) basato sull'agguato e sull'uso dell'arto anteriore nella predazione, piuttosto che un modello canide (stile lupo e licaone), più cursorio, basato sull'inseguimento e che non usa l'arto anteriore nella predazione, plausibile invece per i tyrannosauridi... Quindi il velocissimo "raptor" corridore è solo un mito post-moderno, privo di fondamenta scientifiche: in quanto a corsa, un dromaeosauridae era nettamente meno portato di un ornithomimidae, tyrannosauridae, troodontidae, alvarezsauridae o avimimidae."
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