At 10:01 AM 09/06/2000 +0100, darren.naish@port.ac.uk wrote:
On the bauplan thread, it might be relevant (might not) that birds might
have already evolved a faculatatively quadrupedal form, the bizarre
Caribbean ibis _Xenicibis_. Have mentioned this many times before.
Not my idea - it's Storrs Olson's.
You may have mentioned Xenicibis, but I have never heard about the
quadrupedal bit. Details?
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