Onan the Barbarian (was RE: Wacking Tyrannosaurs (joke))

["Williams, Tim" <TiJaWi@agron.iastate.edu>]

Dann Pigdon wrote:

>Wacking Tyrannosaurs? I'd have thought that was impossible, given those
>puny arms and that they most likely had a cloaca. 

Apparently not, and it explains why _T. rex_ became extinct: It went blind.

There was a recent conference on this very topic - it resulted in a number
of seminal presentations.


Waylon Rowley wrote:

>How about the tooth that Lapparent and Zbyszewski 
>(1957) reported (referred to _Erectopus superbus_?) 
>that's said to have a basal diameter of 7.75 inches? 
>That sounds impossibly huge. Is this just a typo in 
>the text? 

It's a typo - one of (very) many in Glut's encyclopedia.



Tim