Re: Pack o' predators

["Peter Von Sholly" <vonrex@gte.net>]

 I must wonder how a group of skeletons of one kind of animal being found
together proves or even strongly indicates anything one way or the other
about their BEHAVIOR (other than the fact that they may have been social
animals at certain times).  

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> From: Monte-Cristo <monte@gmx.net>
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: Pack o' predators
> Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 9:17 AM
> 
> This is exactly what was needed. Is there enough evidence now?
> 
> [{(Monte)}]
> 
> Garrison Hilliard wrote:
> > 
> > O
> > *** Huge Patagonian dinosaurs hunted in packs
> > 
> > A huge find of bones in the Patagonian desert shows the largest of
> > the flesh-eating dinosaurs was even more fearsome than was supposed -
> > the eight-ton monsters hunted in packs. Four or perhaps five of the
> > Cretaceous-era lords of the Patagonian plains died together 90
> > million years ago. A fast-flowing river swept them onto what is now a
> > sandy rise in the scrubby desert of Argentina's southern province of
> > Neuquen, where their bones fossilized in shallow earth. The bones
> > were dumped by a river flowing west to the Pacific since the Andes
> > mountains did not exist 90 million years ago. Rivers in Argentina now
> > flow east to the Atlantic. See
> > http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2553744781-c90