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

[Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:05:48 -0400 "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr."
<tholtz@geol.umd.edu> writes:
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0506280265jun28,1,5127
874.story
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> Bolstering this is the fact that Jane was only 11 when it died, a 
> year or two before a tremendous growth spurt would have
> transformed it into an adult. Paleontologists determined this by 
> analyzing the rings in a cross section of one of its bones, not
> unlike the rings of a tree trunk.


That would probably be the tibia, right?  BTW:  Why doesn't the tibia
bone in dinosaurs get remodeled with increasing age?


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