Re: Sauropods as seen by Dale Russell in "Dinosaur Attack"

["Jerry D. Harris" <dinogami@hotmail.com>]

> I found that part of the documentary to be, frankly, bizarre.  The idea
> that a sauropod weighing dozens of tons would cool off fast enough to
> fall into a lethargic state as soon as the sun went down exceeds even
> the swamp-bound portrayals of dinosaurs earlier this century.  I mean,
> to lose heat that fast, it would have to conduct like nobody's business,
> probably faster than copper.


  Agreed...but then again, maybe the counter-assumption is that sauropods 
were so big that they couldn't absorb enough heat during the day to get very 
far above a lethargic state.  (Of course, _I_ don't buy that; I'm just 
trying to see things from the opposing point of view).  If that were true, 
though, then that's a pretty bizarre result of evolution, anyway!

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