From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
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ReplyDeleteI feel like Gregory S. Paul mentioned something about this back in 1988, particularly the herrerasaur/sauropodomorph similarities.
Didn't Bakker make a big point about heterodontosaurs having a lot of saurischian characteristics in The Dinosaur Heresies way back when?
Ever since they started finding feathers all over the place I've felt something was screwy.
ReplyDeleteNaish even mentions that Bakker and Paul had argued for something like this but couldn't back it up at the time.
ReplyDeleteMy Dinosaur Heresies is in the garage or I'd check.
ReplyDeletePeople are still acting like this is revelatory:
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I read about a heterodontosaur-like animal being basal to all dinosaurs (and pterosaurs) in the 80s! I didn't dream it up! I bought the book at the Cleveland Lloyd allosaur dig gift shop when I was 11! Everybody forgot about it?