Re: New T-rex findings

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:40:30 -0400, "Nog" <nognog@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>T-rex was just an overgrown vulture without wings and with teeth.
>It couldn't run, it couldn't see well and didn't kill prey because it
>couldn't catch anything. It only came along after the kill, drove off the
>killers and ate what was left. It only had a great olfactory system like
>vultures and could smell dead things for miles away. It was also very prone
>to injury if it fell. A fall was probably the end for it.
>
Not that I care much, but I've always suspected that paleotologists
tend sometimes to find more information in their fossils than actually
exists. I suspect that an alien paleontologist living 50 million
years from now and picking over the ruins of Earth would conclude that
a Komodo dragon couldn't have caught anything that moves much faster
than a cabbage (in reality they have been known to catch deer, pigs,
and people).

He/she/it would also probably be really sceptical about the theory
that homo sapiens was bipedal. Pretty obviously, the optimal
structure for a biped is to offset the heavy skull with a
counterweighting tail that can be constantly moved to keep the center
of gravity over the feet. Something like T Rex or a kangaroo. H
Sapiens is clearly engineered all wrong for bipedal motion.
.

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