Re: Big theropod olympics, part LXIV

["Jerry D. Harris" <LOKICORP@compuserve.com>]

        RE:  Who's bigger:  _Giganotosaurus_, _Carcharodontosaurus_,
_Tyrannosaurus_, etc....

        Here's a question:  why on Earth do we _care_ which one was bigger?
 If one was, say, _twice_ the size of the other, then I could see the
utility of the investigation -- it goes a ways towards paleoecological,
behavioral, locomotory, etc. interpretations, but when the differences seem
so darned small, then so what?!?  

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                     Jerry D. Harris
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