Re: Flight SPECULATION

[ornstn@inforamp.net (Ronald Orenstein)]

>> The problem is that flight evolution among vertebrates is not _that_ rare.
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>  And it has occurred several times in inverts, as well, I believe.
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>

As far as I am aware flight has only evolved once in invertebrates, in
Insecta, and four times in vertebrates: in Pterosauria, birds, bats and
gasteropelecid hatchetfishes.
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