Re: Horner's JP3 interview

["Larry Dunn" <saurosuchus@hotmail.com>]

> From: JAMES ARONIS <Apollo@MLink.net>

> 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."

Horner's spinosaur and T. rex messages seem to be two eggs in the same
carton.  Horner changed everyone's views about dinosaur parenting (or at
least hadrosaur parenting), and that must have been a fun accomplishment.

Now he's trying for another coup, but with less success so far -- T. rex was
a brobdingnagian buzzard, you see.  The problem is, this time he's not
basing it on any evidence I've been able to determine.

Limelighting spinosaurus is an end-run way of backburnering T. rex.  The
whole thing seems more than a little silly to me.

Larry Dunn
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