Comments on: Following Dinosaur Falls http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/11/following-dinosaur-falls/ Where Paleontology Meets Pop Culture Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:48:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Tim Donovan http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/11/following-dinosaur-falls/comment-page-1/#comment-7223 Tim Donovan Fri, 02 Nov 2012 12:23:06 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=8696#comment-7223 Can they reliably distinguish damage from a fall from pathology due to an ankylosaur club or sauropod tail blow? Can they reliably distinguish damage from a fall from pathology due to an ankylosaur club or sauropod tail blow?

]]> By: palaeosam http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/11/following-dinosaur-falls/comment-page-1/#comment-7220 palaeosam Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:57:52 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=8696#comment-7220 I'd have to check but I'm pretty sure I heard about the gastralia pathology in the context of Horner's "list of reasons why Tyrannosaurs lack predatory features". I'll be very surprised if the simulation study hasn't already been done though. I’d have to check but I’m pretty sure I heard about the gastralia pathology in the context of Horner’s “list of reasons why Tyrannosaurs lack predatory features”. I’ll be very surprised if the simulation study hasn’t already been done though.

]]> By: John Hutchinson http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/11/following-dinosaur-falls/comment-page-1/#comment-7219 John Hutchinson Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:48:06 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=8696#comment-7219 Farlow et al. 1995 argued that a T. rex would not run fast because it would go squish if it fell, and in 2000 they provided a nifty plot that showed the g-forces expected for bigger animals-- which fall harder. Links to 1995 and 2000 study: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.1995.10011257 http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/4/640.short free pdf at: http://www.rvc.ac.uk/SML/People/jhutchinson/documents/JRH0.pdf Farlow et al. 1995 argued that a T. rex would not run fast because it would go squish if it fell, and in 2000 they provided a nifty plot that showed the g-forces expected for bigger animals– which fall harder.

Links to 1995 and 2000 study:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.1995.10011257

http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/4/640.short
free pdf at:
http://www.rvc.ac.uk/SML/People/jhutchinson/documents/JRH0.pdf

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