Re: Spinosaurus hand position

["Jordan Mallon" <j_mallon@hotmail.com>]

> From: "Gavin Rymill" <gavin@gavinrymill.com>

> Has anyone else noticed that the Spinosaurus in Jurassic Park 3 has its 
> hands in the "playing the piano" position which I was told was wrong?
>
> Isn't Jack Horner the scientific adviser on the film? Doesn't he subscribe 
> to this posture theory??

Yup.  He also said _Spinosaurus_ approached 60 feet in length.  Here's a bit 
about what he had to say regarding the new _Spinosaurus_ in JP3 (taken from 
an interview at the CanalPlus website):

"The new spinosaurus is very accurate.. it was found in North Africa, 
actually by the Germans but was destroyed during the war. Later a skeleton 
was discovered by the French. A big carnivore, bigger than the t-rex: the 
biggest skull of the t-rex was about 1 meter and half long -- the largest 
spinosaurus we know of has an 8 foot skull.. it was the biggest meat-eating 
dinosaur that walked on land."
[About the idea behind JP] "Jurassic Park is fiction.. DNA doesn't last that 
long, and even if you could clone the dinosaur, we don't have anything good 
for the plant eaters to eat. The general public, however, doesn't know 
that."

Do you professionals get paid to say that stuff? :P

-Jordan Mallon

http://www.geocities.com/paleoportfolio/


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