Lee Olsen Wrote:
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> > > > Lee Olsen Wrote:
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> > > "Life restoration of Zhenyuanlong
> depicted
> > using
> > > its wings in a threat display, as
> suggested
> > by the
> > > authors"
> >
> > It seems perched in mid-air (left foot not
> on
> > rock).
>
> Perfect reconstruction then. A snapshot of the
> exact moment just before it slipped and fell into
> the water of the lake and went to the bottom and
> was covered up by lake sediments.

Very threatening. Wonder what it was trying to scare. Maybe a T rex?


> > Are the authors suggesting that Zs grew wings
> and
> > feathers to threaten its own reflection, or
> fish,
> > or something else?
>
> I'm not sure what might have been in that water.
> Some birds will use a minnow for bait to catch
> something bigger.

Very threatening. How to capture a minnow by terrifying it 101.

>
> > I can't find parsimony there, just a teethy
> > dino-bird with a long fleshy boney tail.
> >
> > Perching on a boulder, perching on a branch,
> not
> > much difference.
>
> Yes there is. Perchers wrap around the branch with
> both front and rear toes. Zs in that
> reconstruction does not have it's toes wrapped
> around the rock.

Please don't confuse modern bird tensional perching with ancient compressional perching. Didn't I cover this thrice already?

Please notice the long fleshy boney tail counterbalancing Zs on the boulder in your 'Minnow Whisperer' reconstruction.


> > > The difference between their suggestion
> and
> > yours
> > > is theirs is the most parsimonious.
> Because
> > it
> > > also explains how Zs got into the lake.
>
> >
> > If it were perched on a branch above the
> water
> > would that matter?
> >
> > I don't see any running there.
>
> That was his mistake,

Running away from a minnow?? I'm missing something here...


that's why that Zs ended up
> in the lake to be found 130 million years later by
> a farmer in China.

A rice paddy farmer?


>
> Did you see the dinosaur they excavated that the
> excavators think got buried in a landslide of
> sand?

A sandy beach with windswept dunes?


Dinos made mistakes once in a while also it
> seems.
>
> Still haven't seen any reconstructions of a Zs
> climbing a tree.
>

Well it was a dense forest, hard to see much...