Re: Deadline Discovery Tonight (and Jurassic Park)

[MKIRKALDY@aol.com]

jrccea@bellsouth.net wrote:
< Tonight's show at 10 pm eastern on Discovery Channel may be of interest
with some discussion of pterosaurs, if it hasn't been bumped.>

and Dan Varner wrote:
< Judging from the posts on the list today, it would appear that no one 
watched "Deadline Discovery" on the Discovery Channel last night. >
It was a really interesting program, with the best aspects of paleontology 
and the new dinosaur finds.  It was great to see some people on the program 
whom you never see on this type of show including  Kevin Padian (who did 
consult on the pterosaurs in JP3), Wann Langston, Hans Sues, and Patricia 
Jones-Bowman on Quetz flight mechanics.   Mark Norell and Alan Feduccia, not 
surprisingly, had differing opinions on birds and/or/are dinosaurs. 

< It was all about Jurassic Park 3 and  had Horner doing the foam sculpting 
bit, talking about Spinosaurus, a look at his "Valley of the T.rexes", in 
fact it was kind 
of a Jack Horner love fest. There was a lot with Stan Winston and the effects 
 crew (the cgi tyrannosaur/Spinosaur fight) along with Padian and Wann 
Langston on the pterosaurs. >
Unless the _T. rex_ threw the fight on purpose, it clearly had a lock on 
Spino's neck a couple of times.  Considering that a segment early in the 
program had shown that a _T. rex_ bite strength was 3000 psi and actually 
could have torn up a vehicle, it would have finished the fight with one bite.

< Lots more, besides. They will be re-running it on  Saturday at 6 PM 
Eastern. >
The program made JP3 look better than it actually was but is a good 
advertisement for the film and paleontology.  

Mary
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