Re: Horner's JP3 interview

[JAMES ARONIS <Apollo@MLink.net>]

Where is Jaime Headen's site?

Jura wrote:

> --- NJPharris@aol.com
> > wrote:
> >James Aronis (quoting Jack Horner):
> >
> >"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."
> >
> >So let me see if I've got this straight:
> >
> >Stocky legs;
>
> +++++++++++++++++++
>
> No evidence for this, as no _Spinosaurus_ limbs have been found.
>
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>
> gharial snout;
>
> +++++++++++++++++++
>
> *Only* in _Suchomimus tenerensis_ which was a very specialized piscivorous 
> baryonychid and probably the *worst* archetype for a spinosaur available.
>
> ____________________
>
> eyes to the side = predator
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++
>
> In lizards...nevermind.
>
> Anyway we don't enough _Spinosaurus_ skull material to tell where its eyes 
> were placed. IIRC we only have parts of the maxillae and dentary, though that 
> new 8ft skull (which I assume is that "Spinosaurus" that HP Jaime Headen has 
> on his site. If not,then all the better.) might change that.
>
> ______________________
>
> >Long, slim legs; heavily reinforced skull; binocular vision = scavenger.
> >
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> I'm surprised that Horner is still stating this. In an interview prior to 
> this one, he sounded like he was lightening up to the idea of a hunting 
> _T.rex_.
>
> Jura
>
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