Saturday, August 25, 2007

Dino dinner

I'm a sucker for any dinosaur tidbit and I love this one from National Geographic:

Today's top athletes would be no contest for meat-eating dinosaurs that ran on two feet, according to new computer simulations of how the extinct predators moved.

"Now I'm no slouch, I can run, but … I think I'd end up being lunch for T. rex," said Phillip Manning, a paleontologist at Britain's University of Manchester.

Tyrannosaurus rex could reach a top speed of 18 miles an hour.

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