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Re: New pterosaur paper (short)



"The slur upon pterosaur trustworthiness is therefore
entirely theirs, not mine."

I'm sure this is simply a typo. The french abstract
has "Les « reptiles volants » de lâ?Tère
mèsozoïque."

It's just yet another miscoding. French quotation marks, « », are ASCII characters; there's no excuse whatsoever for messing an Internet page or an e-mail program up like this.


But then, of course, "reptiles volants" could mean "stealing reptiles" just as well as "flying reptiles". B-)

"The remains of pterosaurs, the �lying reptiles�
of the Mesozoic Era, [...]"