RE: WWD UK vs. US

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> darren.naish@port.ac.uk
>
> *In the UK version, a _Torosaurus_ has its whole horn snapped off
> while in a fight. Jim Kirkland objected to this scene as it's pretty
> ridiculous - if a horn broke anywhere, it would not be right above the
> postorbital. I think that's why they took it out, not because it was gory.
>

While it is true that the break was in an unusual place (there are
ceratopsine specimens which do show rehealed fractures about half the length
of the horn, at a probable horn-to-horn contact point), the word I had from
the U.S. production team was that that scene was deleted for its gore
content.

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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