Re: Tyrannosaurus - scavenger, my craggy butte

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Tim Donovan (uwrk2@yahoo.com) wrote:

<D. Tanke interpreted such evidence differently, considering it the result
of trampling by others in the hadrosaur herd, not predation. One of the
mangled neural spines in the DMNS specimen displays a pit which Ken
interpreted as a toothmark. When I mentioned this to M. Brett-Surman, he
replied that "there are many diseases which cause rotting or pitting of
the bone.">

  And the amazing thing about this is that "trampling" requires the animal
to be prone sideways, and showing other injuries consistent with trample
damage (absent in the specimen) and that there will always be alternative
explanations, but none of it disproves Ken's hypothesis. Might keep that
in mind.

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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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