Re: Horner's JP3 interview

[Josh Smith <smithjb@sas.upenn.edu>]

JAMES ARONIS wrote:

> Here's the interview in question:
> http://www.ingennet.com/media/jp3/clips/spinopart.mpg
>
> This is what he says in another interview:
>
> "We do know that [the spino] had a skull that was eight feet long, and a body 
> that
> was about 60 feet long," Jack Horner [said]. "If we base the ferocious factor 
> on
> the length of the animal, there was nothing that ever lived on this planet 
> that
> could match this creature. Also, my hypothesis is that T-rex was actually a
> scavenger rather than a killer. Spinosaurus was really the predatory animal."
>

Yeah, I am sure a hungry _T.rex_ would completely bypass a turtle or a small 
dinosaur
that it encountered, reminding itself the whole time, "Nope, cannot do that...I 
am
just a scavenger."

That DOES sounds like he is citing a specimen of _Spinosaurus_, but I don't know
where the hell those data are coming from...   He might still be using info from
another spinosaurid and extrapolating it to this genus.  Strange....


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