Re: dinosaur the size of a cat

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From	djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Subject	Re: dinosaur the size of a cat
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In article <onBvK2.1I7E@kithrup.com>,
Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
>In article <ob3e19$n10$1@dont-email.me>, Bast <fake_name@nomail.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>
>>The Starmaker wrote:
>>> "dinosaur the size of a cat"
>>> http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39305750
>>>
>>>
>>> i bet they come even smaller....
>>>
>>> and talk with a silver spoon in their mouth.
>>>
>>> They have british teeth too!
>>>
>>>
>>> By Jove, i dink you got it, o'l chap!
>>
>>
>>
>>But what if cats were 50 feet tall  millions of years ago ? 
>>
>>Millions, yeah, about 33 of them.  They originated in the late
>Oligocene.
>
>There weren't any cats in dinosaur days.

And I checked: the original Oligocene felid, _Proailurus,_ is
estimated to have weighed  about 20 pounds.  So about the size of
that archosaurian descendent, a turkey.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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dinosaur the size of a cat The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-03-23 11:26 -0800
  Re: dinosaur the size of a cat "Bast" <fakename@nomail.invalid> - 2017-03-24 11:32 -0400
    Re: dinosaur the size of a cat djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2017-03-24 16:38 +0000
      Re: dinosaur the size of a cat "Bast" <fakename@nomail.invalid> - 2017-03-24 15:48 -0400
        Re: dinosaur the size of a cat The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-03-24 12:44 -0800
      Re: dinosaur the size of a cat djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2017-03-24 21:14 +0000
      Re: dinosaur the size of a cat "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 15:33 -0700
        Re: dinosaur the size of a cat "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2017-03-24 18:33 -0700
        Re: dinosaur the size of a cat Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2017-03-25 13:37 -0700
          Re: dinosaur the size of a cat "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 15:31 -0700
            Re: dinosaur the size of a cat "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2017-03-27 15:48 -0700
            Re: dinosaur the size of a cat Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2017-03-28 15:18 -0700
              Re: dinosaur the size of a cat "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2017-03-28 15:56 -0700
  Re: dinosaur the size of a cat "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 15:34 -0700
  Re: dinosaur the size of a cat "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2017-04-01 14:00 -0700
    Re: dinosaur the size of a cat "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2017-04-01 17:15 -0700
    Re: dinosaur the size of a cat Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2017-04-02 15:09 -0700
      Re: dinosaur the size of a cat "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2017-04-04 13:42 -0700
        Re: dinosaur the size of a cat Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2017-04-04 14:07 -0700
        Re: dinosaur the size of a cat jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2017-04-04 21:05 +0000
          Re: dinosaur the size of a cat Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2017-04-04 15:44 -0700
            Re: dinosaur the size of a cat jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2017-04-04 23:11 +0000
          Re: dinosaur the size of a cat "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2017-04-04 17:20 -0700
            Re: dinosaur the size of a cat "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2017-04-05 10:47 -0700
        Re: dinosaur the size of a cat "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2017-04-04 14:34 -0700

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