... start ... Okay, okay. Fine. Maybe we'll have a malagasy forest mokele. I've been itching to draw some sauropods anyway. ... anyway. ... Ephippiosaurus...
... interesting, ... robust neck. ... about this drawing. ... Darn. That looks good, but if we're not going to have indigenous sauropods in Madagascar, they...
... Most of those "high"-browsing ornithischians are no higher than a tripodal *Stegosaurus*. Yes, the biggest undaurs are the size of a medium-small sauropod,...
David Marjanovic
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Mar 1, 2003 8:52 am
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... Gotta refresh my knowledge about Spec... <damned Alzheimer's> ... On the legs and tail, too? ... Apart from their flat tail. ... In RL there are AFAIK...
David Marjanovic
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Mar 1, 2003 8:55 am
1503
Hi guys Did you receive the 2 DJAD pictures I sent you?? cheers _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced...
Joao Boto
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Mar 1, 2003 12:29 pm
1504
... Hey thanx! ... Nyet! Baleen-squid feed at the poles on swarming euphausiids - they breed in the tropics where their larval stages reside. ... Currently...
... I agree - keep the true non-avian dinosaur fauna of Madagascar sparse otherwise it would ruin it's "weird island" factor. ... Nope...Sicilian...they're all...
Nice sauropod Ville... Will have to think about where exactly to put it but it could be the last Malagasy survivor of an extinct African genus. ... Of course...
... quite a bit different? For example, it has a hooked beak, not a straight one, and bigger teeth... is interspecific variation so big? :-)<< I think I did...
... Hey Brian! Yes. Breeding in the tropics and eating in the polar seas would do it. Didn't imagine them migrating. But that makes sense. Plankton is a...
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/mjaumala/Spec/molluska.gif What is that last sillouette? I recognize the others. #1 Ktuhu spawn, #2 Benthic crawler, #3 Banded...
Thinking more about my new favorite beasts... How do baleen-squid defend themselves from roving mosharks etc? Hide out in the coral? School when they are too...
... varies by species and time of year. But I guess it would be the same for baleen-squid. They gather together when and where the plankton is abundant and ...
... And once again I feel myself obliged to play Conan the Destroyer. It is weird how big Madagascar's "weird island" factor is in RL; the reason for this...
David Marjanovic
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Mar 1, 2003 8:32 pm
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... Of course. So we will hardly have 10 species of sauropods in Madagascar, nor herds with hundreds of adults. But there still are plenty of trees (in Spec,...
David Marjanovic
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Mar 1, 2003 8:48 pm
1515
... Not necessarily mokeles, but of course some titanosaurs in Madagascar. ... Quite some grass there, actually. And between the rivers of Mesopotamia and the...
David Marjanovic
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Mar 1, 2003 9:06 pm
1516
Hi Dan They weren't photos! Both of them were modeled after mice! The one with the tree is in fact a drawing clued to a photo using Photoshop! cheers ... ...
Joao Boto
sputatrix@...
Mar 1, 2003 9:35 pm
1517
... Madagascar would still have a "weird island" factor, because its size is limited and its isolation has been enduring for the same time, but on the whole it...
... Lotsa washed out terrestrial stuff is known from Niobrara Chalk (Santonian ) in Kansas (eg. the hadrosaur Claosaurus, bits of theropod) All major...
... Yah... ... Yup...Imperial's are normally solitary, only congregating in huge numbers to breed in the tropics and feed at the poles. Majestics (which feed...
... Wait indeed. :-) Long-necked giraffes are such a new phenomenon that they simply haven't managed to get out of Africa yet. Short-necked ones... ...
David Marjanovic
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Mar 2, 2003 11:06 am
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... If you call that lots... ... Good argument. But has any, say, ceratopsian been found there? -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ ...
David Marjanovic
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Mar 2, 2003 11:08 am
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... Would probably not make much difference... ... Indeed, because that's it what their size depends on. ... Sauropods can't run away. We need some big...
David Marjanovic
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Mar 2, 2003 11:31 am
1524
Now that Dan gave me the phineas harpy, I will finally release my hostages, that is, all the dinosauria taxa legends plus most of the mammals and some others...
... something capable of killing sauropods.<< D'at'd be a big ol' crocodril. He an' his bruthuhs, dey waits down by de bayou for de big ol' daddy-mokele to...
... Ah, but you are wrong. It's the minimokeles that are all Sicilian. ... tripodal ... medium-small ... and ... And the great false-sauropod? According to a...
... Why not. Something like *Saurosuchus* with saber teeth... why not indeed. But not over 1 t (maybe allowing for a bit more because of the armor). Ectotherms...
David Marjanovic
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Mar 2, 2003 6:12 pm
1528
... Impressive. But not much for a sauropod, and anyway there are no sauropods left in SA (because my impressive conspiracy to keep them and annihilate the...
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