Re: Hibernating Dinosaurs?

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> <<Is that based on "growth rings" (lines of arrested growth, LAGs)? Those
> same rings can be found in the bones of farm alligators...>>
>
> ... and non-mammalian synapsids from the Lower Triassic of Karoo, South
> Africa.  I think I've got a couple of papers noted down somewhere.
> Diademodon was a 'LAGger' whereas Cynognathus wasn't.

My point was that they don't correlate to hibernation or even less drastic 
seasonal changes -- those gators are kept under constant conditions 
year-round, and yet they still stop growing once a year.