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"All
the museum artifacts have been catalogued and antiques dealers in the West will
now be monitored" (National Geographic), with reference to the hope that
*something* may have survived the Taleban destruction of Buddhist
relics.
In
other words, let us hope greed and antique smuggling has saved
something.
Ironic, no? What if it were
fossils......
Replies backline only.
cheer,
martin
>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??
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Gav
Please remember: Jurassic Park is a movie. Horner is an advisor;
he is not the Director. Directors and producers are free to ignore each
and every piece of advice they are given.
Furthermore, Jack Horner's area of expertise is hadrosaurs.
Although he knows more about theropods then basically anyone else involved in
the production, they are not his research speciality.
Similarly, when reading ANY press releases related to the JP series,
take any scientific assertion with a major chunk of halite (i.e., a big grain
of salt...).
Thomas R. Holtz,
Jr.
Vertebrate
Paleontologist
Department of Geology
Director, Earth, Life & Time
Program
University of Maryland
College Park
Scholars
College Park, MD
20742
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/tholtz.htm
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
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