Re: Athletic Performances

[brucet@mindspring.com (bruce thompson)]

><And can you give me an estimation of maximum speed for the following
>dinosaurs, please?>
>
>I'll try.
>
>(major snippage)
>
>Coelophysis-  About 65 or 70 MPH.
>Compsognathus-  Somewhere between 40 and 50 MPH.
>Tyrannosaurus-  About thirty MPH.
>Ornithomimus-  About 45 MPH.
>Velociraptor-  About eighty MPH.
>Unenlagia-  He's too new.
>Hypsilophodon-  I think he was the best jumper, but he probably didn't run
>all that fast.
>Triceratops-  About forty MPH.
>
>Jeremy Frost

Can this be the current thinking?  I thought the turbo-dino model had
pretty well fallen out of favor by now...

bruce



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