On 5/26/2015 4:48 PM, Ronald Orenstein wrote:
OK, how long before someone suggests (I mean, seriously) that stegosaurid plates allowed the swimming dinosaurs to ward of predators by mimicking a school of sharks?
Don't be silly. Obviously they acted as rudders, or sails perhaps. Why stop there? Stegosaurs, the beavers of the Jurassic...
> http://pygs.geoscienceworld.org/content/early/2015/05/07/pygs2015-354.abstract?sid=61638608-d5b3-4c30-835a-764c85e0d0cd That would be quite a sight, seeing those plates go by on the water, like a train of shark fins...