re: Floatin' Ankylosaurs

["Sherry Michael" <_smichael@excite.com>]

Ah, I stop reading mail for a couple of days and I almost miss an ankie
discussion on the old 'Theropod List'. :)

While I read posts that discussed ankie's flat, rounder bodies acting like
scute-covered surf boards, I don't recall anything on bloating. It seems
that ankies and nodosaurs would make great floation devices after death-lots
of room for gasses to build up.
It could have simply died around water and the carcass found it's way in.

I can picture ankies attracted to water holes like elephants and rinos- to
roll around in the mud or cool off in the shallows. Carting around all that
armor must have been a drag (har har) in the heat.

-Sherry  







"People are like tea bags - you have to put them in hot water before you
know how strong they are."




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