Re: Paedomorphosis ( Re: BARYONYX' CLAWS )

[Dinogeorge <Dinogeorge@aol.com>]

In a message dated 98-04-09 17:57:12 EDT, m_troutman@hotmail.com writes:

<< OK. As I have said at least 3 times on and off list; penguins and 
 auks never really became flightless!!! It is true that aerial flight is 
 gone, but they still "fly" underwater. >>

This is nonsense. It is not aerial flight, and calling it "flight" won't make
it flight. Their  wings have adapted to a particular kind of swimming, just as
theropods wings have adapted to a particular kind of predation--and evidently
neither group needed much in the way of paedomorphic transformations to
accomplish this.