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(10-01-2019, 04:56 AM)tigerluver Wrote: The amount of fossil found in itself should not take away from the conclusions. If I were to show you half a lion mandible and a full skeleton of a leopard, it'd be safe to say how much bigger the lion is than the leopard despite the lion evidence being very fragmentary. What does take away from the conclusions is the lack of numerical comparison in the 1998 paper and then the subsequent issue of the second mandible being only 2% taller.
Yes, but these are not diferences like between a lion an a leopard, this will be like a lion and a tiger, so closelly sized animals, but at the same time, so different in form (in the case of the dinosaurs, obviously). Plus, we need to add the unknown anatomy of those animals that we can only infer how much heavy they were.
Franois have apoint, I a follow that line. Even Harman is doubthing of his previous estimations (although not entirely).