Re: How archosauromorphs beat out therapsids

[Jocelyn Falconnet <j.falconnet@gmail.com>]

Now available there:

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/01/31/rspb.2011.2441.short?rss=1

Cheers,
Jocelyn

Le 01/02/2012 07:44, Heinrich Mallison a écrit :
> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> > http://news.discovery.com/animals/how-dinosaurs-got-so-big-120131.html
> >
> > http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/01/the-secret-of-dinos-success.html?ref=hp


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