RE: A glider?

["R. Irmis" <rbi@dana.ucc.nau.edu>]

Sounds suspiciously like what Gerhard Heilmann proposed with his "Proavis":

http://grid.let.rug.nl/~nieuwlnd/Heilmann/proav16.jpg

Its striking how close these images are to the specimens that are now being
found in China 85 years later!

Regards,
Randall Irmis

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
Berislav Krzic
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 12:48 AM
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: A glider?


A glider?

Observing the position of the limbs and the spread feathers it seems to me
the
animal was a sort of a glider. One can easily imagine these creatures
climbing
up the trees and then gliding short distances from one tree to another.
(This
one obviously missed the target tree ;) - it looks just like a cartoon
character that made a heavy landing.)
One can also speculate that the nests of these dromaeosaurs were high up in
the trees and that young dinosaurs (like the fossilized one) abandoned the
nest while still immature, jumping from the nest and gliding all the way to
the ground.

Berislav Krzic
illustrissimus@usa.net
http://illustrissimus.virtualave.net/

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