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To: RegulatorCountry
It’s a presumption or a guess.

20 foot wingspan. Found in ancient seabed. Teeth of a carnivore. Most of the surface of the Earth is ocean. Most birds fly over water and many of them snatch fish from the water.

What would be your guess that it ate ?

17 posted on 07/08/2014 10:00:37 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

I would say that it’s reasonably certain to have been a carnivore. Beyond that is guesswork.


18 posted on 07/08/2014 10:02:03 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: UCANSEE2; RegulatorCountry
What would be your guess that it ate ?

With those teeth, don't think it ate fruit or sucked nectar out of flowers............Just guessing :)

20 posted on 07/08/2014 10:11:01 PM PDT by The Cajun (Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
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To: UCANSEE2
With a 20 foot wingspan, the bird would not have been highly agile, able to turn on a dime like today's modern hawks. It would have been mostly a glider, like today's albatrosses. It probably had to dive from cliffs to get airborne with a wingspan like that. These characteristics would pretty much dictate it was a fish nabber.
31 posted on 07/08/2014 11:28:05 PM PDT by EinNYC
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