Re: Flight capablities of Archie & Confucius? Not so good...

[Hammann Textbüro <hammann-textbuero@online.de>]

Maybe a point which was discussed earlier: Islands often are "turbo 
chargers" for evolution (I heard of this first when I read the book "The 
Song of the Dodo" by David Quammen many years ago). So are feathers an 
"island invention" (e.g. Archaeopteryx)? If yes, that could mean that 
the typical jurassic island environment (e.g. sandy beaches, flat water 
regions, the breeze and so on) could be reasons which pushed feather 
evolution. Or is this thought not plausible?

Again greetings

Thomas