Re: Pterosaurs in trees? NOT!

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

Tracy Ford wrote:

> > If you look at a Rhamphorhynchid skull, you
> > see long sharp teeth. Lets say it flew over an ocean, lake, whatever,
> > caught a fish, then what did it do? The fish would have been stuck
> > on it?s teeth. How to get it off? A bird can flip the fish in it?s
> > beak, but birds don?t  have teeth, so they can do that. If the fish
> > was stuck how?d it get it unstuck? I think they landed, sat down,
> > used it?s long hooked manus claws to pull the fish off it?s teeth,
> > then manipulate the fish so it could be eaten.

Aren't plesiosaur teeth much the same? Would you also argue they never
ate fish / cephalopods? They didn't have the luxury of forelimbs to
help out. So long as the teeth are not barbed then I don't really see
a problem.
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        Dann Pigdon
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