RE: Giant 'Shell Crusher' Shark Remains Found in Kansas

["John Scanlon" <riversleigh@outbackatisa.com.au>]

Of course, those headlines should really have read:

'Giant Plankton-Sucking Fish Remains...'

How is it possible to get it wrong so completely in so few words so many
times over?

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Dr John D. Scanlon, FCD
Riversleigh Fossil Centre, Outback at Isa
riversleigh@outbackatisa.com.au
http://www.outbackatisa.com.au/Fossil-Education/Palaeontologist.aspx
 
"Get this $%#@* python off me!", said Tom laocoonically.


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Heinrich [mailto:oxytropidoceras@cox.net] 
Sent: 28 February, 2010 12:51 PM
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Giant 'Shell Crusher' Shark Remains Found in Kansas

Giant 'Shell Crusher' Shark Remains Found in Kansas
FOXNews.com, February 23, 2010,
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/23/shell-crusher-dinosaur-terrorized-
sea/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+foxnews%25
2Fscitech+%2528Text+-+SciTech%2529

'Shell Crusher' Shark Swam Cretaceous Kansas
Discovery News by Jennifer Viegas, Feb 23, 2010
http://news.discovery.com/animals/prehistoric-shark-kansas.html

Giant predatory shark fossil unearthed in Kansas
BBC News by Matt Walker, Feb 24, 2010
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8530000/8530995.stm

The paper is:

Friedman,M.,  K. Shimada, L. D. Martin, M. J. Everhart,
J. Liston, A. Maltese, and M. Triebold, 2010, 100-Million-
Year Dynasty of Giant Planktivorous Bony Fishes in the
Mesozoic Seas. Science. vol.. 327, no. 5968, pp. 990-993.
DOI: 10.1126/science.1184743.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/327/5968/990

Yours,

Paul Heinrich
Baton Rouge, LA