Re: physiology and dinosaur d...

[Flyinggoat@aol.com]

>Yes, dinosaurs are diverse, but they are all erect limbed, long->limbed
creatures with a uniform musculature. Among mammals, >only short limbed,
sprawling monotremes have metabolic rates
>appreciably different from other mammals. 

Dinosaurs DO NOT have uniform musculature.  You have bipeds AND quadrapeds
represented in this group.  Of these types, the ankylosaurids are sprawling
and short-limbed.   There is some arguement for and against Triceratops being
a sprawler.  Bad, bad, bad example.

Betty Cunningham(Flyinggoat@aol.com)
(sprawling mammal and proud)