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Re: Baja-ing Dinosaurs
> As I stood there, an idea occurred to me. =
> The design of this Triceratops looks remarkably similar to the suspension=
> of your typical dune buggy. At first, I laughed this off, but as I thought=
> more, it began to make more sense.
> I can say with=
> a great deal of certainty (and a small degree of levity) that sprawling=
> posture in ceratopians is a desert adaptation; where Protoceratops was the=
> dinosaurian equivalent of the dune buggy!
Please elaborate a little bit on exactly what about the Tricertops was
dune buggyish, and how that would have worked well in desert environment.
LN Jeff