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Re: Great White Shark hunting techniques
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