Posted on 06/23/2011 5:27:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
I didn’t just get off the banana boat and be all citified.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2739090/posts?page=7#7
I think that the general scientific opinion has shifted to the idea that catastrophes have a significant impact, but that uniformitarian principles explain a lot for less exciting periods. SC, speaking of Catastrophes, when I pulled up the rest of the article, I noticed a link to serious NASA concern about large solar flares that you might want to post separately.
Regarding TR packs, I read a while back that they have a very large olfactory lobe which it is suggested could smell carrion as far as 20 miles away. Certainly their long legs would enable them to get there fast. So I guess one question is whether they were mixed scavengers/predators like a Hyena pack, or primarily hunters like a lion pride where the smaller females do a lot of the hunting with the big males dealing death blows to large prey. Of course, some other arrangement is also possible.
They should have stuck to the book and wrote him off the pic he is annoying
But i notice there are a lot of whinny snot noses as movie stars today.
I think the story (or one or more like it) about the solar flares has been posted. Thanks g.
Yeah, weird, eh? A whole herd of Edmontosaurus (I think it was) found on a plain? Nope, not a death assemblage, they just happened to die and be fossilized numerous times over millennia. ;’)
Lion alpha males don't do a lot of hunting of even the largest prey.
Their primary role is to defend the pride's territory against other prides and other predators.
They're warriors, not hunters.
Thanks WOBBLY BOB, that’s the one.
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