Re: Armadillos at the K/T! (long)

[NJPharris@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/5/01 8:09:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
david.marjanovic@gmx.at writes:

> > > I should also mention the
>  > > pterosaurs from Chile that nested in the desert (as some seabirds in 
the
>  > > region do today...
>  >
>  > Not sure what you mean here.
>  
>  They fished at sea and nested far away in a desert. Today some seabirds 
nest
>  in the Atacama for the same reason. I'll have to dig up a ref, but AFAIK it
>  was reported on an SVP meeting too.

And let us not forget the north Pacific murrelets (_Brachyramphus spp._), 
which live most of their lives at sea but nest in the relatively 
predator-rich forest.  When the chicks are ready to leave the nest, they have 
to drop (!) to the forest floor and run (!) to the shore to join their 
parents.

--Nick P.