Re: The Continuing Story of Gliders to Dinosaurs

[Stanley Friesen <sarima@ix.netcom.com>]

At 03:51 PM 9/28/99 -0400, Grant Harding wrote:
>Perfect!  An indri-like dinosaur would be a perfect ringer for an arboreal
>theropod ancestor.  One could well imagine one line of its descendants going
>down to the ground, and naturally becoming bipedal, grasping-handed
>predators, and another lineage staying up in the trees, adapting its
>(already present) display feathers to help it with those long interbranch
>leaps, and voila, we have a bird!

Or, an even more complex phylogeny, with several lineages branching out
from the basal group, some of which become terrestrial at various times,
others of which remain arboreal/scansorial and one of which evolves into birds.

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