Re: Stegosaur plates as protection......

["Mark Sumner" <range@inlink.com>]

I find it very difficult to picture a bipedal theropod, it's head a dozen
feet in the air, attacking the "soft underbelly" of anything.  We have good
evidence from hadrosaur and Triceratops specimens that Tyranosaurs attacked
the backbone.

Jurassic theropods were certainly not so top-heavy as a T. rex, but I still
rather doubt they would have grabbed a Stegosaur by the underside of the
throat.

Mark
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