Re: Heat Generation, Fat Storage And Dinosaur Extinction

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> > > It should be pointed out that the implication for
dinosaur extinction is really one that the news
organizations are running with (and even then, it
seems that it's just the editors that are doing so).

The paper itself, makes no such claim.<<<

Good, cause it's assinine to propose that the lack of a specific tissue 
type lead to the extinction of a group (dinosaurs) when you are 
studying extant members of that group which also lack said tissue.


Scott Hartman
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Wyoming Dinosaur Center
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jura <pristichampsus@yahoo.com>
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Sent: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:19 am
Subject: Re: Heat Generation, Fat Storage And Dinosaur Extinction



It should be pointed out that the implication for
dinosaur extinction is really one that the news
organizations are running with (and even then, it
seems that it's just the editors that are doing so).

The paper itself, makes no such claim.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/6/17/abstract

Jason

--- Janet m vandenburgh <van02@cox.net> wrote:

> http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/105217.php
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> A team of researchers at New York Medical College
> has discovered why birds,
> unlike mammals, lack a tissue that is specialized to
> generate heat. A paper
> published in the online peer-reviewed journal BMC
> Biology contains the
> surprising implication that the same lack of
> heat-generating tissue may have
> contributed to the extinction of dinosaurs.
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"I am impressed by the fact that we know less about many modern 
[reptile] types
than we do of many fossil groups." - Alfred S. Romer


      
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