(Bear in mind, too, that some of the brontotheres of the mid Cainozoic were
pretty weight competitive with at least the smaller sauropods. No doubt the
brontotheres were something less than wildly active; but this shows that
sauropodian mammals - while probably less likely than their
In a message dated 12/8/2000 4:06:42 AM Alaskan Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Come on over to Jason Perry's "Jupiter List" and "ISSDG" discussion groups
and you can see Clements and I tearing at each other and questioning each
other's ancestry on a regular basis. It's wonderful.
Jayme Blaschke wrote:
What in the world is a weta?
Director Peter Jackson's Wellington-based SFX company. :-)
Jayme Lynn Blaschke
No great surprise... Jacko's a Kiwi (New Zealander); with a taste for
cinema almost as ugly as the weta itself.
The weta is a very large arthropod endemic
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From: Robert Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Friday, December 08, 2000 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: On The Rise of Oxygen...
This has a strange relevance to Europa, however. If life exists
Bruce Moomaw wrote:
It should be pointed out, however, that multicellular organisms never
evolved on Earth at all until the evolution of photosynthesis provided them
with a much more efficient energy supply -- so it still seems overwhelmingly
likely that all Europan life will be
In a message dated 12/8/2000 5:28:26 PM Alaskan Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This has a strange relevance to Europa, however. If life exists in the
Europan ocean, it's likely to be living in a low energy environment where
competition is unlikely to be widespread. Unlike most
