RE: mosasaur babies/no marine dinos

["Steve Brusatte" <dinoland@lycos.com>]

>So it's possible that mosasaurs were also viviparous and not just the 
>catch-all ovoviviparous.

Yup, HP Ben Creisler just posted to the list a few days ago the citation of a 
new paper regarding this topic:

Caldwell, Michael W.& Michael S. Y. Lee 
Live birth in Cretaceous marine lizards (mosasauroids). 
Proceedings: Biological Sciences Volume: 268 Number: 1484 
Page: 2397 -- 2401 

Consult his post < 
http://www.cmnh.org/fun/dinosaur-archive/2002Jan/msg00001.html> to read the 
abstract.  Sort take: real interesting stuff.  I believe Gordon Bell published 
a few similar papers in the past.

Steve

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