On 10/15/2011 11:52 AM, Vivian Allen wrote:
The disagreement between volumetric estimates of mass and estimates based on scaling of bone dimensions is interesting, though.The most straightforward synthesis, assuming both datasets are accurate (and I have no reason to suspect otherwise), is that dinosaurs may have had lower safety factors than mammals of equivalent size.
That would be a logical consequence of differing reproductive strategies -- i.e., K-selection vs R...