Re: Big Theropod dug up in South America (ABC Science News Online): Repost

[MKIRKALDY@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/1/99 12:00:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time, bh162@scn.org 
writes:
>  Apparently, they bred them big south of the equator!  Go here:
>  http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/dinosaurs990429.html

(From the article, which is taken from Reuters)
>  Largest Meat-Eater Skeleton?
>  New Dinosaur Find in Patagoni 

> Big Lizards Scared Off T. rex?
> Giganotosaurus ruled over South America for millions of years, and 
> scientists suspect it was the reason the slightly smaller T. rex did not 
> stray south. 
>    The 90-million-year-old fossils,  <SNIP>

Quick, boys and girls, can anyone give me a better reason?  

>    As with past discoveries in Patagonia and in Alberta, Canada, the 
>  close grouping of the bones suggests the hunters stalked their prey in 
>  packs. 
>    ?It?s an accumulation (of bones) out of which eventually we may be 
>  able to piece together part of a herd and obtain evidence about
>  behaviour,? said Coria. 
The writers of articles such as this need to be more careful about 
fanciful interpretation of what the scientist actually said.  Witness the 
recent "armored sauropod."

Mary
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