no i'm not, sorry :} Good point on the siren analogues Brian, so we're keeping american freshwater/esturine nodopotami as they are, But possibly making some ...
"And now, that I have your attention"... :-) ... Nodosaurids, not ornithopods. Ornithopod tails are so stiff. ... Ah, nonsense. :-) There was still quite some...
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Nov 1, 2003 11:20 am
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Ah, the folded hand, right... Maybe we'll leave it as is and still post it on the site, but replace it later with a modified one. on Maniraptor hands, i Kind...
... Yes, but not as you'd imagine first. They were hardly able to shove earth backwards with their hands. But they were able to pull it upwards. I imagine they...
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... have to squat ... No biggie, they are sort of low-built, especially for therapods, plus their feet and beaks could have been used too, that explains why...
... In the Nemegt Fm, yes. And AFAIK in the Yixian Fm, too. Their skulls seem adapted to cracking, but are too weak for clams... AFAIK... :-) ... ...
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Nov 2, 2003 3:38 pm
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... dinosaurs"{everyone knows which one i mean} they had aquatic hypsies in the old world and aquatic thescelosaurs in the new, maybe thescelosaur are the...
... And why will they replace the nodopotamids... which don't have to start with such stiffened tails, for example? If vanguards at all, then keep them ...
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Nov 2, 2003 5:26 pm
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Hey everyone, Matti's posted some cool pics on Pendragon. Take a goose (and gander). Dan...
... Thats why I intend for them to paddle rather than scull... I think the pathetic nubs that pass for teeth and the wadded-tissue paper that made do for jaw...
The thescelosaurus had armour {it may have been cartillaginous}, in Greg Paul's recent Thescelosaur restoration{a skeletal one} showed three band like, er, i'd...
Here's the Frogshrew BAAAAA....BAAAAA.....BAAAAA.....BAAA-BAAAM..BUMBUM-BUMBUM-BUMBUM!! Text {you can add to or change this slightly Ozgod} This Peculiar,...
... Considering how often Spec concepts overlap with my two alternate dinosaur evolutions, I'm surprised no one has suggested my manatee-analogue yet. Since...
Simosuchids already gave rise to hoplocrocs... Anyway, the whole point of the argument that was going on was that we needed something with tough enough...
... Oh, er... true. But neither seagrasses nor sea cows are. :-)...
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Nov 4, 2003 10:23 pm
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Hey all. Finally got up the gumption to get back to my editorial duties and edit...orial. Anyway, Drhoz's roaches and tenrecs are up. Now to see to the ...
Brian shot down my idee of tropical manetee turtles, but ibelieve if i give them buig enough bellies and gastrolith mills, it'd work ok, but alas, we all have...
... Nope - the ankies are dead (I'm strongly considering something to replace the GAA) - otherwise we'd have the patently unrealistic situation in Dixon's New...
... Begging the question as to where all the kelp eating turtles of HE are? The only sea-turtle to touch seagrass is the green and it only targets young shoots...
A definate improvement - will be flat out too busy for the rest of the week but will try to shoehorn it next week unless Dan has already put it in. Ozgod out...
Hang on - sent my nodosaur reply without pasting some additional reasoning ... In other words - going head-to-head with vanguards which we're designing to ...
... Boo! Boo! GAA forever! We can't have only euclasaurs in the whole continent! ... Dixon has an EVEN MORE unrealistic situation. He has all dinosaurs dying...
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... Ah, you mean *Struthiosaurus*? ... Problem is... most of those islands probably merged with one another and with North America before the end of the K. ......
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out of curiosity, given the holiday, I thought I'd ask... why do Pumpkins and so many other melons (& melon-like plants) grow along the ground where they can...
I actually remember reading an article about this. Large (that is, soft-ball sized. I don't think any non-domesticated melon/gourd/squash gets much bigger),...
