RE: Eustreptospondylus & Carcharodontosaurines (now hides)

[Waylon Rowley <whte_rbt_obj@yahoo.com>]

--- "Tracy L. Ford" <dino.hunter@home.com> wrote:
> > T. rex tooth and cow pelvis study...

> Good study, but not very accurate IMHO. What they
> needed to do is make jaws
> and then have them bite the cow :) er, cow pelvis.

You'd also need automated legs equiped with talons to
stomp the cow first if you wanted your study to be
truly accurate.
 
> A few weeks ago I ran across an article on the
> thickness of some mammalian
> hides. And I was wondering how to infer this to
> dinosaurs? Thicken necks of
> wilderbeast could relate to ceratopians? Rinos to
> ceratopians? Elephants to
> Sauropods? Has someone already written about this
> and I've forgotten about
> it?

You be better off with reptiles.

Cheers,
Waylon Rowley

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