Re: Paleo Bloopers

[dis@gj.net]

Ronald Orenstein wrote:
> 
> At 10:31 AM 2/20/97 -0700, you wrote:
> >Okay, okay, I apologize at the get go, but it's an assignment, it's a
> >living, a girl's gotta eat.
> >
> >Anyone care to share with me their favorite historic boo-boo?  I.E. The
> >wrong head on the Carnegie sauropod.
> 
> Well, how about the conclusion by Roy Chapman Andrews (?) that Oviraptor
> was eating Protoceratops eggs, when it turns out to have been the parent
> itself?  How many dino books have illustrated Protoceratops guarding what
> was in fact an Oviraptor nest?
> --
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> Or the recent discovery that Mujugalithus is not a pachycephalosaur but 
a dome (two) headed theropod related to Carnotaurus.

Jim K.