Re: Abbreviation update (was Re: FUCHSIA)

["Jean-Michel BENOIT" <s.aegyptiacus@free.fr>]

ANY? Is that a new abreviation?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronald Orenstein" <ornstn@rogers.com>
To: <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>; "The Dinosaur Mailing List"
<dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: Abbreviation update (was Re: FUCHSIA)


> At 03:36 PM 10/08/02 +0200, David Marjanovic wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Aspidel" <aspidel@wanadoo.be>
> >Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 11:07 PM
> >
> >
> > > By FUCHSIA, do you mean it's like some modern birds on the lakes
(swans
> > > IIRC), which run on the water, flap their wings and start to fly, and
> >that's
> > > how flight may have evolved?
> >
> >No, FUCHSIA is the idea that bird flight evolved underwater.
>
> And I'm still waiting for someone to point out aquatic adaptations in ANY
> pre-hesperornithiform (or so) bird, proto-bird, maniraptorian or what have
> you.  Archaeopteryx seems (to me) no better adapted for swimming or diving
> than (say) a roadrunner, a chachalaca or a Velociraptor.
>
>
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