Re: Baby dinosaurs

[Stephen Wroe <swroe@bio.usyd.edu.au>]

As it happens I was just talking to Ben yesterday and I distinctly remember 
him commenting on the vast preponderance of juveniles within his data set - 
as I remember - something along the lines of 'they're all bloody juveniles' 
- but then maybe that's just how I would have put it.

Cheers,

Steve

At 06:49 AM 8/22/2002 +1000, you wrote:
> Colin McHenry wrote:
>
> > Dan, you keep up with this stuff....
>
> I try too...
>
> > Have they shown it to be juvenile
> > plesiosaur?  Did I miss the most significant development in marine reptiles
> > in the last decade? Or is this just more hype from the Flannery media
> > machine?
>
> Well, Flannery IS the king of hype (not always a bad thing). However, on
> the South Australian Museum website Ben Kear mentions that around 95% of
> the plesiosaur remains coming from the opal fields are of juvenile
> animals. I don't know if this has been published anywhere.
>
> http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/plesiosaur/project_2.htm
>
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