Re: "Digging Dinosaurs"

[Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>]

how about modern quadrupeds like the florida panther-capybaras-rats-musk
rats-beavers-jaguars-deer-alligators-foxes-water buffaloes-hippos-
um...really big rocks (oops sorry-got carried away).  The quadruped
predators that live in the swamp feed on the other quadrupeds in the
swamps too (including each other) after all.

and as for dinosaurs, perhaps the ankylosaurs or stegosaurs-at least
during breeding season (this is pure conjecture, mind you)  Certainly
not any of the sauropods.

-Betty


> On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Betty Cunningham wrote:
> > Smaller, lighter dinosaurs probably DID inhabit wetlands.  Lots of
> > quadrapeds do it now.

John Bois wrote:
> Which quadrupeds do you mean?  Remember, you can't count edge predators
> such as racoons.
> 
> And which dinosaurs do you mean (four leggers)?

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