Re: Supersonic sauropod tails at SVP

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Old news. This appeared in Science of Nature a couple of decades ago. 

 
Clair Russell Ossian, PhD 
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On 10/16/15, Jeff Hecht<jeff@jeffhecht.com> wrote:
 
Nathan Myhrvold now has made a physical model of how he believes a sauropod 
tail could have cracked like a whip, which he described in a SVP poster paper. 
Details are in a story just up at New Scientist.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28345-sauropod-dinosaur-may-have-whipped-its-tail-like-indiana-jones/




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