Re: John Bois on Armadillos at the K/T!

["James R. Cunningham" <jrccea@bellsouth.net>]

Maximum unrefueled range is not related to physical size for either birds
or pterosaurs, with the exception that the animals will be lighter at the
end of a journey than at the beginning, by the amount of fuel burned and
water exhaled.

Jim

Danvarner@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 10/4/01 9:18:06 AM Pacific Daylight Time, jbois@umd5.umd.edu writes:
 

<< I apologize in advance for being so predictable--is there an advantage in
either long distance or altitude in having big wings? >>

      Perhaps on paper or at NASA. But then you have the fairly small arctic tern that makes a 10,000 mile journey each way in its yearly migration. DV