Sunday, January 22, 2012

Here is the blog that I selected for our assignment.
 http://whenpigsfly-returns.blogspot.com/2008/01/feeding-adaptations-and-strategies-of.html
Fair warning it take a while to read and can be a bit tricky in vocabulary.

 I chose this particular blog because my ultimate goal after college is to go out into the world as a paleontologist, and actually study the spinosauridae family. On the whole I agree with the blog from a logical standpoint, being that these creatures cannot be studied because they are extinct, but it makes sense that based on their skeletal configuration, shape, and projected skeletal strength. I do however, find it amazing that the theory is introduced that members of this class of theropod could have engaged in scavenging. A few articles and published papers I have read in the past seemed to suggest that because of their elongated and tapered upper and lower jaws that the skull would have fractured or broken when certain types of force may have been applied, such as a twisting or sharp lateral motion on a prey item with sufficient bone thickness and density. Someday I will the one publishing these theories and then college students will be writing about it and hopefully be inspired as I have.

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