Episode 5 of the BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_with_Dinosaurs) looked at Antarctica. This may sitll be available on the web, though I've not found it on 'iplayer'.
P
From: Robert Blau <robert-blau@webtv.net>
To: geol <geology2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 21 December 2011, 22:46
Subject: [Geology2] Re: Plant-Eating Dinosaur Discovered in Antarctica
"Nova" once had an episode on "Polar Dinosaurs", which among other things dealt with issues like the continuum between homeothermy and heterothermy. Interested parties might want to look for it at pbs.org.
RB
> Posted by: "Kim Noyes" kimnoyes@gmail.com noyeskim
> Date: Tue Dec 20, 2011 1:24 pm ((PST))
>
> Throughout the history of our planet there is ALWAYS an Ice Age when there
> is a land mass located over one of the poles and a Torrid Age when not...
> and yes, we are still in an Ice Age by definition although in an
> Interglacial Period of this current Ice Age. Someday after we are long gone
> the current Ice Age will end when plate tectonics moves Antarctica off of
> the South Polar region.
>
> Kimmer
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Rick Bates <HappyMoosePhoto@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > Probably a greenhouse. Reptiles like it warm. Hmm, so do I, does that
> > have meaning?****
> >
> > ** **
> >
> > Merry Christmas,****
> >
> > Rick ****
> >
> > ** **
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > *From:* Victor Healey
> >
> > ****
> >
> > Well, for plants to be in **Antarctica** could we have had at one time
> > a global climate like a greenhouse?****
> >
> > ** **
> >
> > If so could all those fearsome teeth have been used to tear and eat leafy
> > vegetation, a different diet?****
> >
> > ** **
> >
> > On Dec 20, 2011, at 2:38 PM, Lin Kerns wrote:****
> > *Plant-Eating Dinosaur Discovered in Antarctica*
> >
> > ScienceDaily (Dec. 19, 2011) � For the first time, the presence of large
> > bodied herbivorous dinosaurs in **Antarctica** has been recorded. ****
> >
> >
> >
__._,_.___
No comments:
Post a Comment