Re: PLEUROCOELOUS VERTEBRAE IN SAUROPODS

[Jeffrey Martz <martz@holly.ColoState.EDU>]

Greg Paul wrote:

> Rapidly dumping body heat into the cool night sky is easy. Just flush the
> skin with blood from the body core until the heat is unloaded. In the daytime
> minimize heat gain from the environment by minimizing blood flow to the body
> surface. Giant tropical mammals do it every day, and the bigger the animal
> the better it works. 

     That's cool.  There, now we have a nice solution to the 
PROBLEM.    
     In my last posting to Wayne Anderson, I said "the relationship to 
bone strength and mass is not linear."  It should have been "the 
relationship to bone strength and bone size is not linear", which is a 
little more clear.

LN Jeff
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