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About like a big croc. Of course crocs and monitors are quite distant relations.

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except these were land based....only been one type land based croc in recent memory, Mekosuchine crocs, and it died out on Vanuatu and New Caledonia when people showed up.....these crocs may have even been slightly arboreal....

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except these were land based....only been one type land based croc in recent memory, Mekosuchine crocs, and it died out on Vanuatu and New Caledonia when people showed up.....these crocs may have even been slightly arboreal....
I was rereading Dawkins's The Greatest Show On Earth a couple of weeks ago, and I've always found interesting his discussion of species classifications, particularly with regard to class designations. He points out the arbitrariness of the class distinction between birds and reptiles, making specific reference to the fact that lizards and birds are far more closely related by DNA than are, for example, lizards and turtles, yet lizards and turtles both occupy the reptilian class, while birds do not.

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lizards and birds are a fair ways apart.....crocodilians, birds and mammals are fairly close relatively speaking though as if you include birds and dinosaurs they all showed up at about the same time.....huge difference between lizards and crocs physiologically....


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lizards and birds are a fair ways apart.....crocodilians, birds and mammals are fairly close relatively speaking though as if you include birds and dinosaurs they all showed up at about the same time.....huge difference between lizards and crocs physiologically....
Yep. You're right. It was crocs and birds/crocs and turtles, not lizards and birds/lizards and turtles.

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Rattler, start watching this at 4:00. Really cool. I had always thought the T-Rex from JP was all CGI, but it looks like much of it was actually animatronics. Amazingly well done.


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it was split between the two......heavy on CG but they used anematronics for a fair bit.....in the first one, the triceratops on its side was "real" most any of the rex where it wasnt walking.....even some of the raptor stuff....


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Keep in mind that it is an African-American lizard (I am not sure whether they are sensitive about being called lizards. What is the most recent PC name for them? I wonder.) and you do not want Jesse and Al coming down to your front yard. The Halfrican may even sick Holder and the IRS on you. It could get ugly.

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Lee, dissolve some golden Malrin fly bait in some needle extracted egg yolk and re-inject it. But then, no barbecue lizard. grin


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TLEE,hang pic's of Mooschell Obama around where the lizard has been seen.







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