Re: KERATINOUS SKULLS & G. CASELLI

[Mike Taylor <mike@seatbooker.net>]

> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:43:47 +0000
> From: darren.naish@port.ac.uk
> 
> The skulls of elephants (or _Elephas 
> maximus_ at least) exhibit areas on the frontals deeply 
> incised by what appear to be channels for blood vessels, 
> pretty much identical to the surface texture of ceratopian 
> frills. Obviously, elephant frontals are not covered by a 
> keratinous sheath. This bone texture does not therefore 
> indicate a keratinous covering. I wonder if Horner and 
> Marshall know this.

You read it here first: I now await the inevitable popular
press article, _Tricertops had a Trunk, Scientist Claims_.
(Featuring, of course, the obligatory popular-press reference
to _T. rex_ -- probably in the form "... which were preyed
on by the mighty _Tyrannosaurus rex_ ...")

Reminds me of "Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?"  :-)

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Note for the humour-impaired: I am NOT claiming that this
is what HP Naish is actually saying.