Re: Dinosaurs, bodysize and landmass area

["Stephen Wroe" <swroe@bio.usyd.edu.au>]

Yep - a series dealing with late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions is
currently being produced - the Australian star is Thylacoleo. From what I've
seen of the art work so far, the animations will be exceptional.

Steve
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>
To: <qilongia@yahoo.com>; <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 12:33 AM
Subject: RE: Dinosaurs, landsize and landmass area


> > From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> > Jaime A. Headden
> >
> >   To put the subject of the post in a different light, perhaps it
> > would have been very nice had
> > they included an Australia segment as well, ignored *Gastornis*,
> > and simply gone on to
> > *Bullockornis*, which probably could have squished *Gastornis*
> > without blinking. There's a reason
> > it was named the bullock bird... :)
>
> It is my understanding that Discovery is in the midst of producing an
Aussie
> megafauna special, independant of the BBC's "Walking with..." series.
>
> Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
> Vertebrate Paleontologist
> Department of Geology Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
> University of Maryland College Park Scholars
> College Park, MD  20742
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>