Re: NO SECONDARILY FLIGHTLESS THEROPODS

["Matthew Troutman" <m_troutman@hotmail.com>]

<<Actually, a better answer is that birds have not involved their hind 
limb mechanism in the wing structure, and as a result have given up 
little or nothing of their ability to get about on the ground. This 
makes the loss of flight comparatively simple in terms of morphological 
shifts, compared to, say, a bat (though the mystacinid bats of New 
Zealand may have been heading in that direction).>>

    I think that was the point I was trying to make ( that the hindlimb 
can be an adequete locomotor ), thanks for backing it up.

MattTroutman

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