Re: Horner at the NHM

["Steven Coombs" <gasperex@hotmail.com>]

Seems that Horner likes to ask where's the evidence for T.rex being a 
predator. Well in that case one question is, which raptors are capable for 
doing this? And what evidence is there to support such a claim? I'm still 
convinced that T.rex was the top carnivore of its time! Got an article 
written for a up coming issue of PT on the whole predator/scavenger issue, 
its basically more of a review. But, on the whole part on Horner, I still 
find him one of my favorites anyway.

Steven Coombs
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> From: Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>
> Reply-To: mike@indexdata.com
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Horner at the NHM
> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 00:52:57 +0100

> Really _big_ raptors :-) I have to
> say I found this profoundly unconvincing.  Even _Utahraptor_ doesn't
> come in about a tonne; it's asking a lot for one-tonne animals to
> _regularly_ take out eight-ton _Triceratops_ individuals (not to
> mention that it was 55 million years too early!)

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