Re: How archosauromorphs beat out therapsids

[Heinrich Mallison <heinrich.mallison@googlemail.com>]

wow, interesting to see how the Discovery News story mention all the
key points found by our sauropod research group FOR 533 (see
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-185X.2010.00137.x/full
and http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=317633),
and totally fails to mention that all that has already been
extensively published. Matt Wedel's, Daniela Schwarz's and several
other people's research on pneumaticity and the implication of it for
body size is also presented as if Sookias came up with it.....
hmmm..........

I am eagerly looking forward to perusing the paper's reference list.

Also - extrapolating from femur length ONLY?????? How 1990 can you
design your study?
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On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Ben Creisler
> bcreisler@gmail.com
>
>
> Two news story links about a new study of how archosauromorphs beat
> out therapsids and reached huge size.
> The official article has not been posted yet on the Proceedings of the
> Royal Society B site:
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>
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> http://news.discovery.com/animals/how-dinosaurs-got-so-big-120131.html
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> http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/01/the-secret-of-dinos-success.html?ref=hp