RE: Baby dinosaurs

["Richard Forrest" <richard@plesiosaur.com>]

On what basis have they been described as juvenile?
Richard Forrest
richard@plesiosaur.com

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From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
Dann Pigdon
Sent: 21 August 2002 21:50
To: DML
Subject: Re: Baby dinosaurs


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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