Re: pterosaurs in trees...

[tlford@ix.netcom.com (Tracy Ford)]

You wrote: 
>
>This may be true in theory, but *nowhere*, either in the fossil record or in
>the range of living animals, do we have direct evidence of a gliding animal
>taking up powered flight.  Even the very earliest examples of pterosaurs,
>bats, and, I believe, birds were fully powered fliers.  There are gliding
>marsupials, gliding rodents, gliding primate relatives, gliding frogs,
>gliding lizards, gliding fish, and even gliding snakes; but none of these
>groups has made the transition to powered flight.  This suggests to me that
>gliding and powered flight are two separate and (at least largely)
>independent adaptations.
>

YES!!! Now someone else is on the right track! Like I said before, if 
it was a good enought glider, why would it need to learn to flap?

Tracy