Re: futalognkosaurus 105 ft in *Height*

[Jeff Hecht <jeff@jeffhecht.com>]

The picture they ran with the story showed 105 feet as its length; the mistake 
was only in the text. 

At 4:48 PM -0600 10/16/07, Richard W. Travsky wrote:
>On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Jean-Michel BENOIT wrote:
>> In height?
>> 32 m?
>>
>> What would be the length of a titanosaur of such a height?
>
>It was a funny error on the part of the BBC web site writers. They meant -
>or at least, I *hope* they meant - length. 105 foot/32m tall would indeed be 
>frightening.
>
>What WOULD be the estimated length of a monster like that?

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