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Re: bcf vs. badd
we have neglected one obvious source of food that might drive the
pterosaurs and the theropods up a tree to look for it: mammals.
as i recall, some of the earliest mammal fossils are arboreal, including
primate like forms and rodent-like forms, both of which can be very at home
in the trees.
b
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