"Age of the Cybersaur"

[MKIRKALDY@aol.com]

Newsweek (9-7-98, p. 14) has a article by Thomas Hayden entitled 
"Age of the Cybersaur."  It notes that Philip Currie has found five 
ankylosaurs this summer.  Great so far.  Then it says that Currie 
and Nathan Myhrvold worked together "to create a fully functional 
computer simulation of a hadrosaur tail.  The long, tapering tails of 
these gargantuan duck-billed dinos, stiffened at the base by a mass 
of bony supports, have confused scientists for a generation.  Currie 
and Myhrvold's simulations suggested that hadrosaurs could use their 
unusual tails like bull-whips, snapping them fast enough to create 
sonic booms.  That astonishing finding has led to new theories about 
how the tails might have been used; one notion is that male hadrosaurs 
used their snapping tails to attract mates and ward off aggressors."  
You read it first in Newsweek!  And this list last year thought that
hadrosaurs had _no_ defensive mechanisms.

The article goes on:  "A group of scientists, engineers and an artist
in Europe is bringing back _Iguanodon_, a horse-sized herbivore
that could walk upright or on all fours (think Dino, from 'The Flintstones'),
as Robosaurus, a fully autonomous dinosaur robot."   Anyone know
where there are 9 meter long horses?  

Mary
mkirkaldy@aol.com