Re: So Just How Much Could They Bend Their Tail?

["Steven Coombs" <gasperex@hotmail.com>]

> From: Gerrit Hanenburg <G.Hanenburg@inter.NL.net>
> Reply-To: G.Hanenburg@inter.NL.net
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: So Just How Much Could They Bend Their Tail?
> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 00:27:57 +0100
Also, in
> NGMC 91
> the tail is clearly lined with a featherlike integument, which seems to
> weaken the dynamic stabilizer hypothesis as this would have significantly
> increased air resistance.

I don't really agree much with the stabilizer hypothesis, I think that 
featherlike integuments would not really slow down an animal at all during 
stabilizing, because featherlike integuments are not true feathers like the 
birds of today. There are surely light and they don't really make any air 
resistance towards stabilizing. Even an ostrich has feathers (True feathers 
of today), you don't see them running sideways because of air resistance for 
no reason, and it doesn't even have a tail for that matter for stabilizing 
during motion.

Steven Coombs
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