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Re: Origin of feathers

To: m_troutman@hotmail.com, dinosaur@usc.edu, Patrick.Norton@state.me.us
Subject: Re: Origin of feathers
From: Dinogeorge <Dinogeorge@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 03:30:09 EDT
Reply-to: Dinogeorge@aol.com
Sender: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu

In a message dated 98-04-19 03:14:53 EDT, m_troutman@hotmail.com writes:

<< Tennekes in '96 showed that it requires 4 times as much power for birds 
 to take off from the ground. This is another problem for the cursorial 
 origin of flight ; it requires animals to assume their maximum muscle 
 usage for primitve take-off. Even when the animal runs to get enough 
 speed to take off when it jumps it would stall too much for take-off!!!
  >>

How much more does it take to convince us of the absurdity of a "ground up"
origin of flight?

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