Re: Spinosaurs ate pterosaurs

[Eric Hall <Hall966@msn.com>]

> It kinda strikes me odd that scientific types who write these articles
> jump to some of the conclusions they jump to. I'm reminded of my
> grizzly bear & koala analogy. Just because they've never seen each
> other or co-exist, doesn't mean that if you wave a koala in front of a
> hungry grizzly, it's going to turn down this meal opportunity - like
> "Sorry, I can't eat you. I've a strictly North American diet. You'd
> mess up the whole fong-schwey(sp?) of my stomach". lol.
>
>

Amen to this.

These arguments can be fun but they really are not going to go anywhere 
constructive.  A hungry animal is exactly that, and it doesn't care where it 
gets it.  There are fish eagles in Africa that live on flamingos in soda 
lakes, and I remember one documentary from way back that was showing stoats 
somewhere in Europe that got a good deal of their diet from small fish 
trapped in tidal pools.

I don't think an animal that takes a feeding oppurtunity outside of its 
primary diet is left with a feeling of misidentification.  In fact, isn't 
this how evolution rolls on?

Eric Hall