Re: News story: Did We Get Dinosaurs' Noses Wrong? OPINION

[Danvarner@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/2/01 2:01:06 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
dinotracker@earthlink.net writes:


>> Because whether this animal
were biting into living animals or just into carcasses, it seems to me that
such tiny nostrils placed that far forward might easily have become filled
with blood (or something else, like intestinal contents) or even gradually
closed when air passing across blood in the nostrils clots it.<<

    
       I was wondering the same thing. Also, I have questions about the 
openess of bird nostrils--or at least I will when I can figure out what the 
questions are...
       Witmer had an article in the June issue of Natural History magazine 
that presaged this, "A Nose for All Reasons". 
      I'm happy because now I can finish this damn Camarasaur painting on my 
easel! DV