Re: Merry Christmas to all and 220th Anniversary of pterosaur discovery

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting Danvarner@aol.com:

> Jdhexen@aol.com writes:
>
> << Buckland commented in his Bridgewater Treatise  1837   "the structure of
> these animals is so exceedingly anomalous that the first discovered
> Pterodactyle
> was considered by one naturalist to be a bird, by another as a species of
> bat,
> and by a third as a flying reptile."

Of course, 220 years later, we're *still* trying to figure out exactly what
pterosaurs are!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Nick Pharris
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan