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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
Oh, kinda like these guys?

Oh no, I meant the ones about 200 million years upstream.

Remember, I specified "beentzy" wings worthless for anything except making the poor misbegotten possessor, thereof, more cumbersome, less well balanced and, ultimately, less fit to survive.

And when he dies (or is killed by his parents) since he was the only mutant that millennium or eon, sadly the evolutionary "march" had to be put on hold (again).

{But those are cute "artists renderings", no doubt generated from a bone fragment and a way too fertile imagination.}

62 posted on 03/23/2009 3:53:12 PM PDT by Cedric
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To: Cedric
Remember, I specified "beentzy" wings worthless for anything except making the poor misbegotten possessor, thereof, more cumbersome, less well balanced and, ultimately, less fit to survive.

Why should anything have "beentzy" wings, if wings evolved from arms (or front legs)? What, you think they grew wings and then lost their arms? You've been playing too much Spyro the Dragon.

And the artist renderings are based on about 9 pretty good casts, like this:

Interestingly, some of them show feather development on the hind legs, too, which is a pretty good indication that feathers had a purpose before the animals had wings as we know them today.

68 posted on 03/23/2009 5:18:40 PM PDT by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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