Re: Rigby's T. Rex (was Smithsonian mag)

[MKIRKALDY <MKIRKALDY@aol.com>]

In a message dated 3/10/98 9:27:04 AM Eastern Standard Time,
jhecht@world.std.com writes:

>  At the AAAS meeting press room, the woman who handles PR for Notre Dame
>  said that Rigby has found remains of two other T. rex's in the Montana
>  deposit. This is consistent with what I heard unofficially last year, and I
>  assume means they found the evidence of the others when they were getting
>  stuff out of the ground last fall.
>  -- Jeff Hecht

Yes, I was also told this by Earthwatch last year--3 T. rex were found.

The article in Smithsonian  (pp. 50, 52) says:

"The 'boot' of the pubis was twice the size of that found in other 
_T. rexes_ (sic). The tail vertebrae were also huge.  The skull, however, 
was a normal size.  Were there three _T. rexes_ (sic) here?  Rigby had 
begun to wonder out loud whether his colossal dinosaur was not
after all a _T. rex_, but perhaps some new species never before
identified."

Another interesting tid-bit in the article (p. 52):

"...he claims to have unearthed dinosaur fossils from strata more
recent than the Cretaceous-Tertiary divide,..." 

Mary
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