Re: Reuters does its math on new dinosaur

["Jerry D. Harris" <dinogami@hotmail.com>]

> > Paleontologists Fernando Novas and Augustin Scanferla of the
> > Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences identified the fossil as longing
> > to a 365-pound (800-kg) glyphodont, an armadillo-like dinosaur that > 
> >had a tail mounted with an 18-pound (40-kg) club, La Nacion said.

> 365 lbs. = 1 ton?

  Even worse:  glyptodont = dinosaur?!?

  I am very curious as to where the widely-held notion that "fossil" is a 
synonym for "dinosaur" came from...


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