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Re: New twist on pterosaur flight

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Subject: Re: New twist on pterosaur flight
From: Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:25:18 -0400
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Quoting Jeff Hecht <jeff@jeffhecht.com>:

a team led by zoologist Matthew Wilkinson of the animal flight group at the University of Cambridge, UK, thinks the pterosaurs used a moveable forewing -- for more see

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8133


Just curious--is the conclusion that the pteroid is not the thumb metacarpal
based on anything other than the phalangeal counts of the three short fingers?

Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan

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