Re: New Papers in Manhattan

[dinoboygraphics@aol.com]

> > LOL! Yet another case where people have simply believed something for 
generations without ever testing it! :-D I wonder how many more such 
assumptions there are out there. <<

Actually, it's worse; the data (or at least a preliminary version) HAS 
been out there, e.g.

Weaver, J. C. 1983.  The Improbable Endotherm: The Energetics of the 
Sauropod Dinosaur Brachiosaurus,
Paleobiology, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 173-182.

While its primary hypothesis is flawed due to inferred feeding rates 
which assume extensive oral processing, the paper has bomb calorimeter 
data that shows much of what the new paper says (if not in as much 
detail).  So really it's an assumption that was tested but people have 
been assuming the wrong answer all these years anyways...


Scott Hartman
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