Re: Horner's JP3 interview

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

I couldn't agree with you more, James.  If you ask me, it would seem that
Horner has (dare I say it?)... sold out!  Making claims that _Spinosaurus_
could have measured up to 60 feet long is fine with me, since we don't have
a whole lot of evidence either way.  But saying that we do have evidence to
support such a claim is wrong.
I also find it interesting that Horner, too, now subscribes to
"Brontosaurus."

-Jordan Mallon

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

> From: JAMES ARONIS <Apollo@MLink.net>
> Reply-To: Apollo@MLink.net
> To: Dinosaur Mailing List <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Subject: Horner's JP3 interview
> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 14:03:25 -0400
>
> This may or may not have been posted previously on the list. (If so,
> disregard this post)
>
> I recently downloaded one of the JP3 movie trailers which features an
> interview with renown paleontologist, Jack Horner. The short interview
> dealt primarily with the _Spinosaurus_ model used in the movie, and
> how realistically it's apparently portrayed based on current
> paleontological data. What puzzles me is his mentioning that
> _Spinosaurus_ is the largest carnivore that ever walked the earth, and
> more specifically, that the largest specimens (only one, AFAIK...)
> were ~60ft. in length in possession of 8-ft. skulls!!  FWIK, even the
> skull this species may have actually had is in dispute, is it not?
> Where did he obtain information that correlates with these claims?
> Isn't Horner a specialist in hadrosaurine dinosaurs? I find it very
> disconcerting (to say the least) that a famous paleontologist would
> indulge in such erroneous/exaggerating statements, especially
> regarding genera that are not within his specialization.



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