"Land-dwelling dromaeosaurids followed a non cursorial felid model of hunting (like a lynx or jaguar) based on ambush and usage of the hind limbs in predation, rather than the more cursorial canid model which doesn't make use of the hind limbs in predation (like a wolf or African wild dog), which is more plausible in tyrannosaurids... The super fast cursorial "raptor" therefore is nothing more than a scientifically baseless post-modern myth. When it comes to running, a dromaeosaurid was notably less able than an ornithomimid, a tyrannosaurid, a troodontid, an alvarezsaurid or an avimimid."
Dinosauria

January 1, 1970

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