Re: Discovery Article On Pterosaurs

[Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>]

> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 11:29:29 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Richard W Travsky <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>
> 
> http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20031006/pterosaur.html
> [...]
> According to Darren Naish and Dave Martill, paleobiologists at the
> University of Portsmouth in England and authors of the Biologist
> paper, pterosaurs for most of the 20th century were stereotyped as
> awkward fliers with little wing movement.

Congratulations to Darren and Dave.  For those who's not already
tracked it down, a PDF of the paper is freely available from the
Institute of Biology's site, at
        http://www.iob.org/downloads/Pterosaurs_50_5.pdf

Enjoy!

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P.S.  Surely Chris Bennet wins palaeo-quote of the year now, whatever
anyone says between now and December 31st.  "I know if I had one of
those, women would be throwing themselves at me, convinced of my
sexual prowess and reproductive fitness, and men would shrink from me,
sure that my strength greatly exceeded theirs."  :-)  :-)