RE: flying Archie

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Ian Paulsen wrote:

>  OK, if Archie could fly what modern bird would it resemble in flight?

No modern bird at all.  That's the point Jim and I are making.

Although some entomologists have hypothesized that certain modern hexapods 
exhibit behaviors that might be analogous to the incipient stages of insect 
flight (e.g., gliding lepismatids, surface-skimming stoneflies); and bats 
are thought by some researchers to have evolved from dermopteran-like 
ancestors (though maybe not the Dermoptera iself); there's no such analogs 
for early birds in the modern world.

Cheers

Tim