Re: Paedomorphosis ( Re: BARYONYX' CLAWS )

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

>Now just wait a goaldarn minute here, in an earlier post you said..
>     Why would I find this noteworthy? Yes, the avian wing is very 
>adaptable to underwater swimming. Why? Underwater swimming is basically 
>the same as flight. It has the same motions, kinematics and uses the 
>same muscles, flight apparatus, and control as flapping, aerial flight. 
>Compare this to theropods. <<

     Somebody alerted me to the contrary. 

<<Now why is it flying fish don't 'swim' through the air (WHICH IS WHAT 
GEORGE SAID). They use the same muscles 'swimming' through the air as 
apposed to swimming in water. I take it you've never seen a flying fish 
'fly'. I've seen some while takeing the boat to Catalina island. What 
Flying Fish do is get enough speed to break out of the water, i.e. to 
the surface, then then use the bottom of their caudal fin, in a swimming 
motion, back and forth, to keep up the 'speed' to swim in the air.>>

     I have seen them 'fly', not in the flesh though. But, the 
difference is how they 'sustain' their flight. They sustain it using 
their anterior fins by gliding.  However, your accounts have made me 
retract what I have said about flying fish before and it does seem that 
they do, have a way of "swimming" through the air.

MattTroutman

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