Re: Great White Shark hunting techniques

[JCMcL <darwincr@laplaza.taos.nm.us>]

On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Dan Lipkowitz wrote:

> In message Tue, 23 Jan 1996 23:56:04 -0500,
>   JCMcL <darwincr@laplaza.taos.nm.us>  writes:
> 
> > Oh, but it would.  Sauropods fed by reaching down with their long necks
> > to the treetops whilst floating above them.  At such times, large
> > carnivorous dinosaurs sometimes leaped into the air and punctured the
> > giants with their teeth, thus letting the amassed hydrogen out so that
> > the sauropods FWOOSHED about briefly like titanic balloons before
> > settling to earth to be devoured at last.
> >
> > John McLoughlin
> 
> Why do I have a feeling that we don't want to know how the sauropods
> descended to the ground at night in order to bury their heads, as per your
> last explanation?
> 
> Then again, that can't be as strange as how they got back up into the air in
> the morning...
> 
>   Dan Lipkowitz
> 
The head-burying wasn't my explanation, but mass descents of sauropoda 
may account for some of the lesser extinctions around the end of the 
Jurassic.  

JCMcL