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Re: At Last!
Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 5:22 pm
by Minimalist
the ones that were fast enough were predators. The ones that weren't fast enough were scavengers.
Even modern predators will steal a kill if they can. They are opportunists. They will also go after the young or the old and cut them out of a herd whenever possible. No reason whatsoever to think that T-Rex operated any differently.
Re: At Last!
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:08 pm
by Rokcet Scientist
Digit wrote:And all these years they were thought to be cold blooded based on a single tooth?
I'll tell another that's even more ridiculous kb. When Cope and March were digging up fossils like weeds the only comparable effort in Europe was small, so some of the museums cried 'foul'. The result was that casts were taken from some of the largest examples the Cope and March had recovered and offered to museums in Europe.
Now at that time 'everybody' new that Dinos were simply overgrown lizards, so the Berlin museum mounted one of these large Dinos with splayed legs, Croc fashion.
The snag was that mounted in such a fashion its feet didn't reach the ground! The problem was overcome in a typically Teutonic efficient manner by standing the mounted skeleton on four pillars with the ribs nearer the deck!!!
Quite how the 'experts' seem to think such a beast could have walked remains a mystery.
Fortunately the whole abortion was destroyed by allied bombs during WW2!
Do any photos remain?
Re: At Last!
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 3:47 am
by Digit
I haven't been able to find one RS. The one I had was in a book from some years ago that I no longer have. It was included in a chapter about the 'battles' between Cope and Marsh and how the Americans had donated casts.
It's worth noting as an aside that, despite the evidence to the contrary, that Dinos are still classified as Reptilia. It takes a long time for the establishment to change anything.
Roy.
Re: At Last!
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:45 am
by Minimalist
It takes a long time for the establishment to change anything.
Re: At Last!
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:11 am
by Digit
In view of the evidence of a four chambered heart Min I'm curious as to where the establishment might place them in the future.
No reptile to my knowledge has a four chambered heart.
Roy.
Re: At Last!
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 11:18 am
by Minimalist
Birds have 4-chambered hearts, too. The connection seems fairly obvious.
(To me.)
Re: At Last!
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 11:26 am
by Digit
And to me, but the establishment exist on the planet Zog I think.
Roy.
Re: At Last!
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:53 pm
by Minimalist
Reminds me of something I spotted in a write up for an old North Africa wargame. The British army apparently had a 90mm anti-aircraft gun on hand and they stood by watching while the Germans used their 88mm anti-aircraft guns to blow up British tanks. As the saying went, " if they wanted it to be used as an anti-tank gun they wouldn't have called it an anti-aircraft gun, would they?"
Similarly, "if they weren't reptiles why did they called them "saurus" to begin with."