Re: A new "Revolution" installment.

[Luis Rey <luisrey@ndirect.co.uk>]

Thank you but...  I was meaning Yanornis ('Archaeoraptor' was just as 'irony'
really... the references I've got for Yanornis do indeed have a long bony tail,
not a pygostile. Am I missing something?
Concerning Microraptor, I doubt very much  that an animal that is endowed with
such a feather fan around the legs was not  able to use them as 'parachutes',
so I thing it could moderately 'sprawl' its legs (not as much as widening the
arms though and I don't think they could batter them just as if they were
arms). So the flight would be effectively like that of a 'biplane'.
I know Scott doesn't like the model either but... it is fun to argue.

David Marjanovic wrote:

> Wonderful as usual! I just wonder why you painted "Archaeoraptor" instead of
> *Yanornis* -- which belongs to Euornithes, had a short tail with a short
> pygostyle and most probably had alulae. I also still wonder if *Microraptor*
> was able to sprawl its hindwings even only that far.

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