Re: mosasaur babies/no marine dinos

[John Bois <jbois@umd5.umd.edu>]

Implicit in this is your assumption that cold currents _never_ could have
brought them North.  This seems unlikely to me.  Don't know the answer to
your question, though.

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, David Marjanovic wrote:

> > If penguins are dependent on cold water currents, and cold water currents
> > reach the equator, the equator is not a barrier.
> 
> Indeed not. But the end of the cold current is. This is what IMHO prevents
> them from getting farther north. Otherwise they would breed on Clipperton,
> wouldn't they? Are there any on the Isla de Cocos or on Malpelo (both near
> Galápagos, around 5°N)?
>