Re: One last thing on the bitten _Edmontosaurus_

["Jerry D. Harris" <dinogami@hotmail.com>]

> If this injury was indeed caused by a _T. rex_ , then wouldn't that destroy
> the theory that _T rex_  used an infectious bite to kill it's prey, ala
> komodo dragons?

  I dunno...what are the statistics of the success of komodo dragons in 
infecting things that they bite?  (Not that I am condoning the notion that 
tyrannosaurs do this!)  ...at any rate, a bitten _Edmontosaurus_ has a 
_much_ better chance of escaping the biting tyrannosaurid as a result of 
having a substantially larger area to wander away in.

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Jerry D. Harris
Dept of Earth & Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
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