Re: aussie gliders

[pharrinj@PLU.edu]

On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Nicholas R. Longrich wrote:

>       I don't really want to open up the whole origin of birds things 
> again, but I was reading a book my younger brother got for christmas and 
> it made a couple of interesting comments. One was on the feathertail glider, 
> a marsupial glider. The tail has on either side, a row of stiffened hairs 
> that give the tail the featherlike appearance. One would think 
> Archaeopteryx ancestors might have had something similar. The other was 
> that the book claimed not one, not two, but THREE separate evolutions of 
> gliding among marsupials. 
> 

And among mammals in general, I can add at least two more:  flying 
squirrels and colugos/bats.