RE: "Age of the Cybersaur"

["Stewart, Dwight" <Dwight.Stewart@VLSI.com>]

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        From:   MKIRKALDY@aol.com [SMTP:MKIRKALDY@aol.com]
        Sent:   Wednesday, September 02, 1998 11:15 PM
        To:     dinosaur@usc.edu
        Subject:        "Age of the Cybersaur"

        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 <mailto:mkirkaldy@aol.com> 


        9 METER long horses!!!  Not EVEN in Texas! :-)

        Dwight