Re: Dinosaurs, landsize and landmass area

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Stephen Wroe (swroe@bio.usyd.edu.au) wrote [on the VRTPaleo list]:

<A few comments on a recently published paper (Burness et al. 2001. Dinosaurs, 
Dragons and
Dwarfs... PNAS, 28: 14516-14523) examining the relationship between bodymass in 
extinct & extant
species and landmass area over the last 65,000 years-->

  To put the subject of the post in a different light, perhaps it would have 
been very nice had
they included an Australia segment as well, ignored *Gastornis*, and simply 
gone on to
*Bullockornis*, which probably could have squished *Gastornis* without 
blinking. There's a reason
it was named the bullock bird... :)

  Oh, by the end of this month, that paper at _PNAS_ should be freely available 
for download as a
pdf ... all papers from the antepenultimate issue (counting from the current) 
back in the archives
is availble, except for the commentaries, news, etc. The same is true for 
_Science_, only count
back _one year_.

=====
Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

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