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Re: A good day for tyrannosaurs

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Subject: Re: A good day for tyrannosaurs
From: "T. Michael Keesey" <keesey@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 15:32:34 -0700
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On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au> wrote:
>
> It makes you wonder, though, how the smaller-bodied tyrannosaur species 
> managed to compete
> against the juveniles of the larger forms (where they were contemporaneous).

All other things being equal, shouldn't the small-bodied ones have the
advantage? They can already breed at that size, while the juveniles
have to survive longer.
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T. Michael Keesey
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