Re: Canotaurus Sheild

["Jordan Mallon" <j_mallon@hotmail.com>]

Steve Coomds said:

"Carnotaurus is horns may have been used to keep the sun out of its eyes!!!"

To which Marcel Bertolucci added:

"If we take the picture of a _Carnotaurus sastrei_ stopped beside a dead 
prey, looking around if there is no other creature that can steal his prize, 
under a torrid sun, maybe in a savana-like scenary, we really may wonder 
that his horns would´ve been used to block sunlight from hurting his eyes."

Again, an interesting suggestion.  One that I had made myself a number of 
years ago, in fact.  You can read some of the responses I got to my 
"theropod sunglasses?" post I made here:

http://www.cmnh.org/fun/dinosaur-archive/1998Jul/msg00019.html

-Jordan Mallon

http://www.geocities.com/paleoportfolio/


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• Subject: Canotaurus Sheild
• From: "Steven Coombs" <gasperex@hotmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 22:25:19 -0400
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Carnotaurus is horns may have been used to keep the sun out of its eyes!!! Good for the eyes if it spotted prey or carrion. And also good for chasing a herd of dinosaurs and there was lots of sand coming in its face, and the horns could act like a sheild to the sand and sun or even rain and bushes, so it could keep up with any interference. And maybe if it was in combat with a herbivore and if it were to struck towards its eyes it would be protected, only if it raise or lowers its head to the blow. "Its maybe played hockey and some baseball" (Thats not true, what was I thinking?). Little more suggestions.

 

Steve

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