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Re: [Re: The Cretaceous Middle-East]

At 06:57 AM 9/21/00 -0400, philidor11 wrote: 
<The babies fill the niche of a small ground-predator.  If food is scarce,
those babies don't grow very much as they
mature.  However, if food is plentiful, the babies gorge and grow
tremendous.>

Needn't happen in a single generation, either.  Though I've seen 100 year
life span estimates for dinos, implying a long time between generations,
that could be shortened for a quick, warm-blooded group under the right
conditions, no?

Warm-bloodedness need not enter into it.

Recent research has put some real numbers on dinosaur lifespans, and none have come close to the 100 year mark. Even sauropods seem to reach adulthood in 15 to 20 years, and to live around 40 or 50 years. Large hadrosaurs seem to reach adult size in 5 to 8 years.

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