Re: 'Kitchen science' reveals dinosaurs died in agony

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Actually, the authors do explicitly (and convincingly, IMO) address the 
issue of oblique fish death poses.  Everyone should read the paper, 
it's quite well done, with very good controls (it's not every day that 
we get to run control experiments in paleo...).


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-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry D. Harris <jharris@dixie.edu>
To: DINOSAUR Mailing List <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 10:11 am
Subject: Re: 'Kitchen science' reveals dinosaurs died in agony


Uh...?!? Unless those are warm-blooded fish, fig. 6.4 (pp. 94-95) in:Â
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Barthel, K.W., Swinburne, N.H.M., and Morris, S.C. 1990. Solnhofen: A 
Study in Mesozoic Palaeontology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 
236 pp.Â
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...should be enough to show that it ain't just "warm-blooded" animals 
that can attain this position in death... 'Course, I hain't read the 
Padian & Faux paper yet, either; maybe they address this...Â
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