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...hoops career wasn't in the cards, so I left to join my other dorky friends on the tennis team, where I wouldn't have to worry about opponents' elbows bruising my sternum. Eight years later, I'm still waiting for my 6'5 frame to fill...
Like its discoverer, Bambi was a juvenile, about 75% of adult size. It had a large brain, a birdlike wishbone and sternum, and winglike arms. These were so long, says University of Kansas paleontologist David Burnham, that the dinosaur "would have tripped over them" if they had hung down as it almost (but not quite) flew across the prehistoric landscape...
...long one. Below the right knee, the tibia and fibula shattered into half a dozen pieces. The right femur broken, the ball joint at the hip damaged. The elbow of the right arm crushed. Several ribs snapped, their sharp ends driven into the lungs. Collarbone and sternum busted. What saved me was the merest fluke: apart from punctured lungs, a few picturesque cuts and some bruising to my liver and heart, the damage was all skeletal, not soft tissue. My brain was intact; ditto my eyes, spine, guts and genitals. It could so easily have been otherwise...
RECOVERING. ROBERT HUGHES, 60, author, art historian and critic for TIME; from multiple injuries sustained when the car he was driving was in a head-on collision near Broome, Australia. (Three others were injured.) Hughes, who suffered fractures of the ribs, sternum and right leg, was in Australia to film a TV series, Beyond the Fatal Shore, a sequel to his best-selling book, The Fatal Shore...
...Even so, says paleontologist Mark Norell, it shares a number of features with modern birds. "In Archaeopteryx, for example," he explains, "the fibula ((the thin bone in the leg)) touches the ankle. In birds that doesn't happen, and the same is true of Mononychus. Birds have a keeled sternum ((or breastbone)), where the flight muscles attach. Mononychus also had a keeled sternum." Some of Mononychus' wristbones were fused together, which is another hallmark of adaptation for flight, suggesting that Mononychus may have evolved from a flying animal, just as ostriches and emus are descended from flying birds. That being...