Re: Ectothermy?

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 98-09-03 17:39:11 EDT, TomHopp@AOL.COM writes:

<< Fossil evidence for
 what you (larryf) are mooting is so rare (as in, mostly yet-to-be-discovered)
 that I feel you may be frustrated in your efforts to gather relevant data on
 ancient brooding endothermy, let alone convince any reasonably skeptical
 scientist.  >>

Not to mention that in the scenario under discussion, endothermy would have
been secondarily >lost< in squamates (or retained vestigially, as in rock
pythons, etc.). That makes it pretty hard to swallow.