Re: "DINOSAUR SOCIAL WARMTH" (joke)

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

Ray Stanford wrote:
> ...
>     Can anyone out there think of a dinosaur find to which such an
> interpretation might seem parsimonious with all the known facts?  It is
> interesting to speculate about this, but, of course, we seemingly could
> never know for sure whether the communal deaths were during communal
> conservation of heat, partially because of the impossibility (?) of knowing
> the weather at the time of death.

I have already aired my personal theory on how Tenontosaurs used
Deinonychus as living hot water bottles, and how carelessly rolling over
in the night sometimes led to tragedy.

See: http://www.cmnh.org/fun/dinosaur-archive/1999Apr/msg00752.html


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Dann Pigdon                   Australian Dinosaurs:
GIS Archaeologist           http://dannsdinosaurs.terrashare.com
Melbourne, Australia        http://www.alphalink.com.au/~dannj/
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