Re: New theropod from Montana

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <th81@umail.umd.edu>]

At 09:19 PM 9/16/97 -0700, you wrote:
>According to an AP wire service story today, a team of paleontologists
>and diggers led by Keith Rigby of Notre Dame University is currently
>working on excavating what may be the largest theropod dinosaur ever
>discovered.

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>This family gave Rigby
>permission to dig there.  However, he later became suspicious and made a
>land records search.  He found that the fmaily did not own the land,
>that it had been seized by the federal Farm Service Agency several years
>ago.  

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Bloody hell, NOT AGAIN!!

Why doesn't this happen to the mammal workers?  The trilobite guys?!  Why is
it always tyrannosaurs!?!?!?!

(Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't have gone into a less stressful job, like
neurosurgeon or bomb defuser... :-S ).

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist     Webpage: http://www.geol.umd.edu
Dept. of Geology              Email:th81@umail.umd.edu
University of Maryland        Phone:301-405-4084
College Park, MD  20742       Fax:  301-314-9661