CROCODILE ?MYTHS?

["D.W.Naish" <dwn194@soton.ac.uk>]

> The assertion that only one crocodile has been seen to gallop is not true.
> There are films of galloping juvenile crocs (I've seen them) and still shots,
> plus technical studies. A galloping croc looks like a bizarre cross between
> a running squirrel and a reptile.
> 
> GSPaul
> 

Can you provide any references for this ppplease?

MORE ON UTAHRAPTOR

Will someone *please* ask Bakker _why_ he thinks that _Utahraptor_ originated
in Mongolia? In Raptor Red he says that the characters in the book actually grew
up in Mongolia, and, within their lifetime, spread across Beringia. He also
reckons that the giant dromaeosaurs reported recently from Asia are utahraptors
too, but he adds that _Utahraptor_ spread westwards _back_ into Asia - I know
this is fiction, but he must have some evidence in mind. If so, we could never
know whether an Asian utahraptor was a ancestor of an American species (before
spreading east) or a later immigrant from an ancestral American species. Help!

"Well Biff, I never saw any blind spot when I was driving"
"Well, what are you - blind McFly - it's there, how do you explain that wreck
out there?..."

DARREN NAISH