Re: Berlin Brachiosaurus

[don ohmes <d_ohmes@yahoo.com>]

Are there any extant quads that are unable to swim? Armadillos have a rep 
locally as sinkers, but other than that nothing comes to mind. Which doesn't 
mean much, so I ask...

Don

----- Original Message ----
From: Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>
To: DML <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 6:49:11 PM
Subject: Re: Berlin Brachiosaurus

Mark Hallett wrote:
> 
> A nice short article, but where did the author get the
> pronouncement that brachiosaurids couldn't swim?

A paper a few years ago attempted to look at brachiosaur bouyancy, and
concluded that their relatively narrow bodies and their top-heaviness
may have made them too unstable (and prone to capsizing) for them to
swim in open water.

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