Re: All this flying talk---then comes the why..or something

[Stephen Faust <smfaust@edisto.cofc.edu>]

How about the fact there was simply a new niche to colonize filled with
flying insects and such good things to eat?

Steve

Stephen Faust                   smfaust@edisto.cofc.edu

On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, DinosØMP wrote:

> Most people I talk to - "knows" why flight evolved.
> You ask, and they answer - "Its much easyer to escape danger that way"
> 
> OK. Running is allso a effective way, AND flying ofcourse.
> 
> But why, then, did the most dangerous animals (at their time) evolve to 
> fly??? What 
> where they scared of?
> 
> Why has those animals kept their siccle claw a long way up in the air? Take 
> "Rahona" or 
> "Linsterosaurus" ("Velociraptor jr/Saurornitholestes sp") for example. They 
> are nice 
> links to birds. They have allso kept a large siccle claw, just like 
> Deinonychus. How 
> about them _attacking_ from the air-gliding town from a hill or a tree, down 
> to an 
> unsuspecting prey. 
> 
> Maybe avian flight did not avolve to escape danger - but to be the one that 
> makes it!
> 
> -DinosØMP
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