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RE: Various items



> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] 
>
> Quoting "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@umd.edu>:
> 
> 
> > Extremely insightful commentary on a chapter from the 
> recent Indiana 
> > Univ Press Tyrannosaurus rex book (not that I'm biased or anything):
> > 
> http://whenpigsfly-returns.blogspot.com/2008/07/trouble-with-scavengin
> > g.html
> 
> I've only got one minor quibble about the text - the use of 
> the word 'Gondwanaland' at the end of the second-last 
> paragraph. The word Gondwana means 'land of the Gonds', so 
> Gondwanaland would mean 'land of the land of the Gonds'.
> 

True, and most geologists currently use "Gondwana", but "Gondwanaland" was
the original formulation of this name.


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