Re: Discovery Article On Pterosaurs

["T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com>]

--- "James R. Cunningham" <jrccea@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I admire Chris as much as anyone I know, but it's almost certain they
> didn't. 
> 
> The big ones don't appear to have had enough horsepower to take off that
> way.  However, they did have enough power to take off from any flat spot
> without running, in a dead calm, even in today's atmosphere.  It just
> takes a different technique, in which the hands are the last part of the
> animal's body to leave the ground.

Is this the technique bats use when taking off from the ground? (Or, e.g., a
vampire bat taking off from a sleeping animal?)

Why the hands last? How would (?does) the order of events go?


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