Shaking its tail feathers


	Shaking its tail feathers

Silkweaver

10-22-2008 1:39 PM

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birds, dinosaurs, paleontology

Silkweaver says:

Cute (sort of)

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10-22-2008 1:50 PM

Kelika

Can you imagine a flock of these little toothy darlings in Pershing Square?

10-22-2008 9:06 PM

LoPhatt

I bet they taste like chicken.

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