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Supersonic sauropod tails at SVP

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Subject: Supersonic sauropod tails at SVP
From: Jeff Hecht <jeff@jeffhecht.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:56:26 -0400
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Nathan Myhrvold now has made a physical model of how he believes a sauropod 
tail could have cracked like a whip, which he described in a SVP poster paper. 
Details are in a story just up at New Scientist.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28345-sauropod-dinosaur-may-have-whipped-its-tail-like-indiana-jones/




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