Re: So I was watching Jurassic Park III last night... (SPOILER ALERT!)

[MKIRKALDY@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/19/2001 5:29:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
tholtz@geol.umd.edu writes:

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< Now that you mention it...  Of course, as Ralph Chapman pointed out some
years ago, Paul Reiser and Paul Sereno in the 1980s (c. whenever "Aliens"
came out) REALLY looked a lot like each other >
"Billy" had the same eager, fascinated look when around fossils that I have
seen in the eyes of our graduate students at SVP.  I was trying to think whom
I would cast in the role from our DML membership.

< It was almost certainly Ellie's husband.  Living in the D.C. area, I know
enough of people who claim to work for the State Department or international
relations who are REALLY working for... other governmental agencies.>
Still, that was quite an expensive assortment of troups sent for a few people
who didn't have permission to be on the island.

< And WHY didn't the Spinosaurus eat the T. rex?  If it had, endotherm or not,
it would have been stuffed for days or weeks, long enough for the humans to
make it off the island. >
It was tired of chicken and fish and wasn't worried about the dangers of
eating red meat?

Is there only one of each animal except for the "compies" and the "raptors?"

Mary
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