Re: theropod tongues

[dunn1@IDT.NET]

> From:          Archosaur@aol.com


> In the Lost World the tyrannosaur laps out of the swimming pool with a pink,
> very mammalian looking tongue.  My birds sure don't drink like that!!  What
> do we know about how theropods would have gotten liquids into their systems??

But then of course Tyrannosaurs  probably didn't have beaks either.  
Dinosaurs and birds are related (or dinosaurs are birds or birds are 
dinosaurs or dinobirds are . . .) but can we really say that a two 
ounce dinobird should dictate the reconstruction of a five ton 
theropod?  

I personally think that, with nothing but it's head to poke around 
with, a tyrannosaurid would probably benefit from a long tongue in 
low-risk poking-around situations.  Then again, I won't be chased in 
JP3 . . .
Larry

I'm not interested in how dinosaurs lived
I'm just glad they're dead

Jack Horner as quoted by Dan Quayle