dinosaur steaks and muscle fiber types

["James Norton" <JNorton@mailbox.une.edu>]

Perhaps the thread about eating dino meat can be turned into something 
scientific.  Ostrich meat is dark and "steak-like" because of the preponderance 
of fatigue-resistance, "red" muscle fibers, highly aerobic and signifying a 
creature that is very active.  Croc meat, especially the tail, looks more like 
chicken breast or white fish because the muscle fibers are more of the 
fatigue-prone, anaerobic, glycogen-dependent, "white" type.  Those of us who 
consider dinos as highly active would expect a theropod steak to be more like 
bear meat than chicken, red, juicy, and flavorful.

JMN


James M. Norton, Ph.D.
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