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Re: Happy Birthday, T. rex!

Hmmm, how did T-Rex and his ilk get water? 

A trunk? (with some first-rate armor plating, of course)

Actually, I've always loved the idea of a short (truncated...heh, heh...) sauropod trunk - for hopelessly unscientific and aesthetic reasons. I just want it to be so. But I gather the possibility has been thoroughly chucked out.

Wait! Isn't it traditional for the birthday boy/girl to cut and serve the cake? And with those tiny, spur-like arms! Who would have thought the T. Rex birthday picnic would be so tragic?


--Neal

http://rabbitandcrow.blogspot.com


On Oct 5, 2005, at 4:55 PM, Andrew Simpson wrote:

--- frank bliss <frank@blissnet.com> wrote:

No cheeks either so it would probably crumble out
the sides.  Hard to
wash it down too!
Frank (Rooster) Bliss


Hmmm, how did T-Rex and his ilk get water? Perhaps
they did not drink but the blood of their victims.
Maybe they used their tongues somewhat like a cat
does. Seems like the easiest way would be to get in
the water and drink as they swam.

I have other hypothosis on how they got cake.

Andrew Simpson


--- frank bliss <frank@blissnet.com> wrote:

No cheeks either so it would probably crumble out
the sides.  Hard to
wash it down too!
Frank (Rooster) Bliss


On Oct 5, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Ken.Carpenter@dmns.org
wrote:

No matter, he/she/it will eat the whole thing in
one bite (and a few 
guests standing too close).

Kenneth Carpenter, Ph.D.
Curator of Lower Vertebrate Paleontology/
Chief Preparator
Department of Earth Sciences
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
2001 Colorado Blvd.
Denver, CO 80205

Phone: 303-370-6392
Fax: 303-331-6492


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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu
[mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu] On Behalf 
Of Neal Romanek
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 3:28 PM
To: tholtz@umd.edu
Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday, T. rex!

Drat. No lips and all those candles to blow out!


On Oct 5, 2005, at 5:11 AM, Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
wrote: 

Greetings,

A good day in tyrannosaurid studies! 100 years
ago today, the initial
description of Tyrannosaurus rex, its junior
synonym
Dynamosaurus imperiosus, and Albertosaurus
sarcophagus was published. 

Happy Centennial, guys!

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
        Senior Lecturer, Vertebrate Paleontology
Department of Geology           Director, Earth, Life &
Time Program 
University of Maryland          College Park Scholars
        Mailing Address:
                Building 237, Room 1117
                College Park, MD  20742

http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/eltsite
Phone:  301-405-4084    Email:  tholtz@geol.umd.edu
Fax (Geol):  301-314-9661       Fax (CPS-ELT):
301-405-0796 


--Neal

http://www.nealromanek.com






            
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