... No, it does not, once you copy and paste the whole URL into your browser. The URL spans two lines. Here's it again -- though probably it will get a line...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
Dec 1, 2007 8:30 pm
18673
(rises from winter stupor) While on the subject of penguins, here, direct from Boulder Colorado, http://images.google.com/imgres? ...
... And has been around for quite some time... :P ... http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2007/10/hardshelled_sea_turtl es_.php), There are sponges without...
... that ... er, isn't the southern ocean too cold for mosarks and any reptile except perhaps *Dermachelys*?Then again, I'm thinking along the lines of the...
... You have a point*Though no mosasaurs have been found in cold artic (As opposed to general polar) waters.IIRC, the antarctic mosasaur was in a deposit that...
... Hm. There were no mosasaurs yet when plesiosaurs and icebergs coexisted in the Eromanga Sea. (And I forgot... what's the evidence that both were present in...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
Dec 4, 2007 11:57 am
18681
... it? Most likely so. Maybe bacterial symbionts? (Dang, I answered a question with a question) ... The discussion goes on......
... at the ... mentioned ... generalist ... and the ... though I'm not ... plesiosaurs. So there's another window for speculation here? If plesiosaurs were to...
... waters. ... coexisted in ... on the other hand, the mosasaurs have had 65 million years to adapt to polar water temperatures. (_Ice Hunt_ aside, I doubt...
Perhaps there can be a brief survival of plesiosaurs after the Cretaceous, then they would fade away, with only relic species lingering until 2-3 million years...
... That's a gross overestimation, and you know it. The pic is basically a demonstration of how a lack of cetaceans and pinnipeds, and brian's being slow in...
... an ... For my 2 cents, have one or 2 surviving relics. In fact, I will personally make them, seeing as everyone I know illustrates and sculpts plesiosaurs...
... That would be great for creating cryptids. But for that option we would need some kind of convincing reason. I don't think we can get rid of the...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
Dec 5, 2007 3:33 pm
18689
... The somewhat pliosaur-like polycotylid *Dolichorhynchops* (once called a 'double-penguin' by Bakker) is known from the Bearpaw Formation of Saskatchewan,...
I suspect that the plesiosaurs might be Spec's version of creodonts: thought to survive to the present time in one form or another...but they actually died off...
... Are we? I was under the impression that I created seaguins and selters to fill just those niches (and sea otter niche too, in the case of smaller selters)....
... another...but ... ? whats wrong with wanting to keep the full Cretaceous marine fauna from staying into the Holocene? we could have plesiosaur-looking...
Dudes, Aren't plesiosaurs a bit too nostalgic? With all due respect, I find plesiosaur-craving a bit too similar to pining for desmostylans, archaeocetes and...