[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index][Subject Index][Author Index]
Re: T. rex bones
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Jeff Poling wrote:
> I was recently asked if _T. rex_ had hollow bones, and I couldn't
> remember one way or the other. Which is it? The _Dinosauria_ doesn't seem
> to say, unless I didn't recognize the term, which is possible. What is the
> term for hollow bones, to go into the anatomical dictionary?
Robert Bakker uses the term "Pneumatic" a lot when discussing bone
features in Tyrannosaurus
Coelo- meaning "hollow"
---John Schneiderman (dino@revelation.unomaha.edu)