RE: JPIII: unmitigated rubbish

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

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> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Graydon
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 12:39 PM
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: JPIII: unmitigated rubbish
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> On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 11:09:29AM -0400, Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. scripsit:
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> >   And here's a question: what got the guys in the boat?  Maybe
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> > from JPII was hiding in their cooler or something...
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> Given the relatively fresh skull in the ~pteranodon nest, can't we
> assume that the guys in the boat got grabbed from the air?

I thought that for a bit (and that WOULD explain the skulls!) but at that
point (contra the final scene of JPII) all the _Pteranodon_ specimens were
presumably locked up in their aviary (pterosaurary?).  Perhaps you are
right, though.

> Certainly easier than believing a spinosaur can swim that fast...

Never even occurred to me that that was implied... Urgh.

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
                Vertebrate Paleontologist
Department of Geology           Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
University of Maryland          College Park Scholars
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