Re: Baby dinosaurs

["Colin McHenry" <cmchenry@westserv.net.au>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Wroe <swroe@bio.usyd.edu.au>
To: dinosaur@usc.edu <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Date: Thursday, 22 August 2002 8:01
Subject: Re: Baby dinosaurs


>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.


Well, like I said, I'll be happy to be proved wrong on this.  In that case
good luck to him.  It would be fanastic to start getting an idea of what
plesiosaur kids were like.

Col

>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
>>