RE: Chicago Tribune article about Jane the juvenile T. rex exhibit at the Burpee Museum

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> mkirkaldy@aol.com
>
>
> I hope that National Geographic will print a retraction on its fanciful
> "packs of nanos" quotations in its May 2005 issue.  Some other people
> should also be eating crow(osaur) with this announcement.

To be fair, a number of paleontologists (including Phil Currie, Bob Bakker, and 
Jorn Hurum) still regard Nanotyrannus as a valid
species distinct from Tyrannosaurus rex.

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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