Re: Gallery and Commentary for Copenhagen Mamenchisaurus

[Amtoine Grant <ajgrant@eastlink.ca>]

yeah, all living reptiles (feel free to correct me if i'm wrong) have 
an upward slant in their necks going forwards, except crocodiles - 
kinda looks like they're stuck in the pushup from hell.

p.s. - f spielberg, wait until I learn 3d modeling & animation . . .

On Wednesday, June 23, 2004, at 07:41  PM, Nick Pharris wrote:

> Quoting Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>:
>
> > What's more, I am told that at two different conferences (an SVP in
> > the USA and an SVPCA in the UK), Stevens presented unpublished results
> > in which the DinoMorph software seems also to show a horizontal
> > neutral posture for _Brachiosaurus_.  I bet you my firstborn that _B._
> > didn't rear to feed (whatever Steven Spielberg says).
>
> Horizontal with respect to the ground, or horizontal as in in line 
> with the
> thoracic vertebrae (which, under the traditional reconstruction, would 
> still
> mean sloping upward with respect to the ground)?