(March 6, 2015 at 12:47 am)Neber Wrote: Animals with the eyes the size of a greek shield would lend itself to being a dinosaur, that was the recount of Alexander the great. Elephants are what the biggest, otherwise it'd need to be a large sea creature, but the instance of Alexander the great's was that his army was walking through a foreign nation and those people referred an animal with huge eyes and told them not to annoy it, but as Alexander's Army marched across the valley they heard a huge roar and were terrified, and some had sighted the great beast.
A quick link to a brief on that account Alexander encounters a great beast
Hang on, "...eyes the size of a greek hoplon..." ??? WTF?
You're talking 3' diameter there, even with a Macedonian style Aspis you've got a 2' diameter.
No dinosaur had anything like that, indeed all vertebrates have eyes within a relatively narrow size range. A blue whale has an eye roughly the size of a grapefruit. Giant squid have the largest eyes in the animal kingdom at 10".
I call BS.
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