re:archaeopteryx

[Crpntr@ix.netcom.com (Kenneth Carpenter)]

  The discussions about Archaeopteryx amuse me because ten years ago 
Greg Paul and I submitted a manuscript on dromaeosaurs being descendants 
of archaeopterids.  Nature returned it without sending to review.  A 
longer version to Palaeontographica was also returned because it was too 
contoversial and they felt it should appear where readers to respond to 
the editor (you mean like Nature? :) ).  I still have the manuscripts 
somewhere.  Greg eventually published part of them in his Predatory 
dinosaur book.
  As to the lack of a sternal keel as "proof" Archaeopteryx did not fly, 
I suppose somebody better tell bats, who also lack a keel, that they 
must henceforth crawl.