Re: WWD Allosaurus Re: WWD Allosaurus

[HPB1956@aol.com]

Larry Febo wrote on 04/10/2001:

> One particular morphological-behavioral speculation that bothered me was
> that big Al developed a reddened nasal crest that showed his sexual
> maturity, yet,...the larger female that he attempted to mate with also
> sported a red crest. Does this make sense, that such an indicator would be
> present in both sexes? (Perhaps big Al really got his butt kicked because he
> tried to mate with a larger male!)

Why does everybody seems to be so sure that it was a male Allosaurus? Has 
anybody really shown that Big Al was male?

Cheers


Heinz Peter Bredow