Comments on: Mapusaurus, bigger than T. rex? http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2006/04/18/mapusaurus-bigger-than-t-rex/ The institutionalized doodles and discoveries of a dead-animal designer. Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:55:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Matt Celeskey http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2006/04/18/mapusaurus-bigger-than-t-rex/comment-page-1/#comment-11171 Matt Celeskey Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:47:09 +0000 http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2006/04/18/mapusaurus-bigger-than-t-rex/#comment-11171 Hi Roger - Who needs an in-depth site when you can go direct to the source? The paper describing <i>Mapusaurus</i> is still freely available <a href="http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/7653_g06n1a4.pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I haven't heard of any further papers written about this animal, so the sum total of published scientific knowledge about <i>Mapusaurus</i> is available at your fingertips! Not too shabby! Hi Roger -

Who needs an in-depth site when you can go direct to the source? The paper describing Mapusaurus is still freely available here. I haven’t heard of any further papers written about this animal, so the sum total of published scientific knowledge about Mapusaurus is available at your fingertips!

Not too shabby!

]]> By: Roger http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2006/04/18/mapusaurus-bigger-than-t-rex/comment-page-1/#comment-11170 Roger Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:34:06 +0000 http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2006/04/18/mapusaurus-bigger-than-t-rex/#comment-11170 I have spent the last half hour or more visiting site after site, mostly science pages and some news pages trying to find a single datum on this Mapusaurus skull. Beyond the blurbs about it being guessed it was about 41 feet long, no indications of the length, width or height of the skull. No photos of the original skull on site, that is, where it was discovered, no useful information of relative size, such as a yard-stick or a man with a yard stick standing next to it....a dog, really helpful. Just blurbs and speculations, some data about the teeth being like "knives" but no close up of the teeth. I mean, I would have expected to find some real meat to this story. I guess we'll have to wait for the "history" channel or some National Geographic special. What a disappointment. The internet is really dilute. Can you point us to an in depth site on this animal? I have spent the last half hour or more visiting site after site, mostly science pages and some news pages trying to find a single datum on this Mapusaurus skull. Beyond the blurbs about it being guessed it was about 41 feet long, no indications of the length, width or height of the skull. No photos of the original skull on site, that is, where it was discovered, no useful information of relative size, such as a yard-stick or a man with a yard stick standing next to it….a dog, really helpful. Just blurbs and speculations, some data about the teeth being like “knives” but no close up of the teeth. I mean, I would have expected to find some real meat to this story. I guess we’ll have to wait for the “history” channel or some National Geographic special. What a disappointment. The internet is really dilute. Can you point us to an in depth site on this animal?

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