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Re: Evidence of Warm Blooded Dinosaurs
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Tue, 25 Apr 2000 21:21:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> 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.
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> There's even some debate as to whether ichthyosaurs were true dinosaurs
> anyway.
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. :)
> > I did not like the ideas presented on the subject by The Discovery Channel's
> > "Walking with Dinosaurs." :)
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> What ideas were those?
First, the sauropod (in this case, Diplodocus) dug a hole with its rear feet.
Then, it used an "egg tube" (1) to lay the eggs in the hole. After all the
eggs were laid, they would be buried, and left to fend for themselves. I
didn't like the "egg tube" idea, nor did I like the idea the sauropods didn't
care for their young.
Jeff
1 - A cylinder of muscle that extended to the ground, and the eggs were pushed
down it. This was used because the sauropod couldn't sit down and get close to
the ground, and just dropping the eggs would cause them to break.
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| (...) Er, yeah. That's what I said. ;-) "Archosaur" == "ancient lizard"? I guess I need to look that one up in the standard literature. (...) A prehensile ovipositor, eh? LOL -- I just watched _Aliens_. I wonder how much scarier that movie would've (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I'm not very current on dino-topics, but isn't "Dinosaur" something of a bum categorization? I thought there are/were a number of critters lumped in as dinosaurs, who aren't any more related to each other than they are to other, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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