Albertan Running Lizard

Dromaeosaurus albertensis

    Dromaeosaurus albertensis is one of the deinonychosaurs, swift hunters that use raised claws on their inner toes to rip at their prey.  True to its clade, D. albertensis is a ferocious small-predator of late Cretacious North America, but it has altered its hunting stratagy from its kin's.  While D. albertensis does sport the dangerous sickle claws of its reletives like Velociraptor , these claws are reletively small.  D. albertensis uses its teeth as its primary weapons, biting and grappling with its prey like a cat.

Other sites containing pertinent information:

• T. Mike Keesey's Dromaeosaurus page
• Jeff Poling's articles
• Cretaceous "Hell Creek Faunal Facies"; Late Maastrichtian (a list of all Cretaceous organisms found in Hell Creek, of which Dromaeosaurus  is one)
• Paul's comments about Feduccia's bird digit paper
• Responses to dinosaur-lung claims
• What is a Raptor?
• Shiraishi Mineo's Dromaeosaurus picture
• Chris Srnka's leaping Dromaeosaurus
• Kazunari Araki's Dromaeosaurus sculpture
• Øyvind M. Padron's Dromaeosaurus (skeletal reconstruction)
• Micheal Trcic 's Dromaeosaurus skupture:
• "The Hunt: Lambeosaurus and Dromaeosaurus"
• Leaping Dromaeosaurus
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