Re: PNEUMASTATICS & Exploding sauropods

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> What kind of air pressure are we talking about here? I don't understand
the
> proposed mechanism for compressing the air.....

Does anybody here know how birds do it? I'd say sauropods did it the same
way, whatever this means...

> I suspect the pressures necessary to stiffen this structure would make a
> whopping bang if the neck was bitten....enough to blow the teeth out of
any
> predator.....

What's the problem with that? That's a really cool adaptation for defense,
isn't it? =8-)