Re: Penguins And Rexes

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> <*R.* at least hasn't been illustrated in dorsal view.>
>
> [...] However, Mark Hallett illustrated the dorsal view of *R. krausei*
> in the original Curry-Rogers & Forster paper. You can see this image here:
>
>  http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Units/Unit330/Images/Rapetosaurus2.gif

Oopsie. Yes, that's the pic I saw just the day before. :-]

> <...were outside the question, which was
> "what happens when a *Brachiosaurus* trips".>
>
>  We were also discussing titanosaurs.

As part of another question that just so happened to be in the same e-mail. 
:-)

> Elephants seem fully capable of
> laying down as adults and getting up again, from their sides.

Yes -- but then they retain considerable capabilities of limb abduction that 
sauropods didn't possess, at least for the hindlimbs.