"Pterodactyls Probably Didn’t Fly Like We Think They Did" Topic
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| Tango01 | 24 May 2018 10:03 p.m. PST |
"The popular conception of pterodactyl flight shows them in a pose with wings and legs spread far apart similar to the way bats do it. But as new research shows, it's very unlikely that flying lizards were able to move their joints and hind legs in such a manner—a finding that could influence the way scientists study mobility and movements in extinct animals. When reconstructing extinct animals, paleontologists rarely, if ever, have the benefit of working with soft tissue, such as ligaments. Thankfully, fossilized bones tend to retain the correct physical orientation of a dead animal, but there's no tissue showing how muscles or ligaments may have constrained mobility. As new research published yesterday in Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows, paleontologists may not have soft tissue to work with, but they do have an important resource: living relatives….."
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| Stryderg | 25 May 2018 5:44 a.m. PST |
Did they:
Fly like an eagle
To the sea
Fly like an eagle
Let their spirit carry them
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| Cacique Caribe | 25 May 2018 7:37 a.m. PST |
Some of them didn't get to fly very far at all. Not even "to the sea". Dan
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| Tango01 | 25 May 2018 11:50 a.m. PST |
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| Dave Crowell | 27 May 2018 12:42 p.m. PST |
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| Cacique Caribe | 27 May 2018 1:20 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 27 May 2018 3:29 p.m. PST |
Ha-Ha-Ha…. Amicalement
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paints some fast cats.