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Re: Evidence of Warm Blooded Dinosaurs
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Tue, 25 Apr 2000 21:05:03 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeff Stembel writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > Sproaticus wrote:
> > > obnotherdinotopic: Brontosauri and related dinos probably gave live birth.
> > > Many bronto nests have been found, but no eggs.
> > Ichthyosaurs absolutely did (there's a famous fossil of an Ophthalmosaurus
> > that died while giving birth and was somehow fossilized),
> True, however, Ichthyosaurs are definitely not a good example, if you ask me.
There's even some debate as to whether ichthyosaurs were true dinosaurs anyway.
> > Oh, regarding that end-of-the-sauropods argument, there are fossil
> > representatives of late camarosaurs (I believe) in the late Cretaceous.
> I think he was kidding about the jumping part. ;)
Yah, I was...Mondays. :-,
> I did not like the ideas presented on the subject by The Discovery Channel's
> "Walking with Dinosaurs." :)
What ideas were those?
Cheers,
- jsproat
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| (...) As far as I know, there is no debate. Icthyosaurs are not Dinosaurs, just as Pterosaurs aren't Dinosaurs either. :) However, all three types are Archosaurs. :) (...) First, the sauropod (in this case, Diplodocus) dug a hole with its rear feet. (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) True, however, Ichthyosaurs are definitely not a good example, if you ask me. Sharks, after all, give birth to live young(I'm not sure about all of them, but I think they do), so perhaps laying eggs is a poor choice for large sea-going (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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