Ancient 'killer Walrus' Not So Deadly After All (Miocene, California)

[Oxytropidoceras]

Ancient 'Killer Walrus' Not So Deadly After All

by Megan Gannon, January 17, 2013

http://www.livescien...rus-fossil.html

New Research Throws Doubt On Earlier 'Killer

Walrus' Claims, Science Daily, January 17, 2013

http://www.scienceda...30117105903.htm

Boessenecker, R. W., and M. Churchill, 2013, A

Reevaluation of the Morphology, Paleoecology,

and Phylogenetic Relationships of the Enigmatic

Walrus Pelagiarctos. PLoS ONE.

8 (1):e54311 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054311

http://www.plosone.o...al.pone.0054311

Best wishes,

Paul H.

[Fossildude19]

Thank you for the links, Paul.

That's our own Boesse co-authoring that paper and interviewed in the article!

Well done Bobby.

Regards,

Edited January 17, 2013 by Fossildude19

[jpc]

yayyy, Bobby

[AgrilusHunter]

Way to go Bobby!

[Boesse]

Hey, Thanks guys. Best part is, all of you can read the peer reviewed article, for free! Ask me anything you like about the research, I'll be checking in intermittently.

[Raistlin]

Awesome we have a star

I really was not sure if that was you or not when I read that. Then I thought to check here.