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Re: Theropod eating and attacking

To: Dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: Theropod eating and attacking
From: Gautam Majumdar <gautam@majumdar.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 20:47:03 +0100
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Tompaleo@aol.com wrote
>
>I don't know about this. Do modern reptiles hork up parts of their prey?
>Taking a cue from crocs and snakes, I'd say no. 

Some snakes do. Egg-eating snakes (Genus Dasypeltis) swallow the egg
whole, use the downward pointing extension of the neck vertebrae to break
the egg and then regurgitates the shell in a pellet.

Gautam Majumdar                 gautam@majumdar.demon.co.uk

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