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From: djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Subject: Re: dinosaur the size of a cat
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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 21:14:23 GMT
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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