Re: sauropods: homotherm,heterotherm or gigantotherm?

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

Please, everyone, refrain from using the Reply All button. I mean... it's 
clearly the least of my current problems, but I got two copies of every mail 
in that thread...

> Try swim... It costs more energy than walk or run in air.

Are you sure those numbers don't include the basal metabolic rate???

> > The "creodont" *Megistotherium* (literally "biggest beast") is said to
> > have been bigger, and carnivorous (unlike the herbivorous cave bear).
> > Then there's *Andrewsarchus*...
>
> How much bigger? About the size of a, let's say, _Deinosuchus_?

No. But then *D.* counts as semiaquatic.