RE: The Lost Dinosaurs Of Egypt ... and insects

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

Luis Rey wrote:

> > OK.  Here we go.   I guess no one had anything better to do last
> > night....
>
> Well, frankly it was much, much better and entertaining than any Jubilee
> broadcast.

Although the Jubilee celebration seemed to show more fossils on display.   

;-)     (OK, I admit that wasn't very funny.)


Allan Edels wrote:

> I don't know of any monster K insects, though, while the gigantic 
> Permian insects are famous (not to mention the Carboniferous 
> *Arthropleura* -- it also had trachaeae, right?). 

The decline of volant mega-insects (especially Odonata) in the Mesozoic may
also be due to the rise of the Pterosauria rather than a drop in O2 in the
atmosphere.



Tim



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