Re: Did anyone else notice...

[Larry Dunn <majestic_cheese@yahoo.com>]

--- Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au> wrote:

[site quoted]

> > "Some speculate they might have helped
> support the T. rex's
> > large head."
 
> Unless they mean that the forelimbs were reduced in
> order to help
> balance the large head, in which case they help to
> support it in a more
> negative sense (that is, by not being so heavy that
> the animal
> constantly overbalances and lands face-first in the
> dust).

That's probably what the material they read, or the
paleontologist they consulted with, said, but it came
out of the media meatgrinder in the way we read above.
 Oy vey.


=====
Larry

"I've been ionized, but I'm OK now."

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