Re: aussie gliders

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 96-01-10 22:37:22 EST, longrich@phoenix.Princeton.EDU
(Nicholas R. Longrich) writes:

>       I don't really want to open up the whole origin of birds things 
>again, but I was reading a book my younger brother got for christmas and 
>it made a couple of interesting comments. One was on the feathertail glider,

>a marsupial glider. The tail has on either side, a row of stiffened hairs 
>that give the tail the featherlike appearance. One would think 
>Archaeopteryx ancestors might have had something similar. 

I hypothesized this very thing in the first printing of _Mesozoic
Meanderings_ #2, 1991. I called it a "tail-glider." _Cosesaurus aviceps_
might have been one.