Re: NEW NEORNITHINE & PTEROSAUR STUFF

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

About half of the chicken wings I give to my cat have quite distinctive
"thumb" claws, extending well out from the skin. Of course commercially
bred chickens are not a natural species, with several otherwise
maladaptive traits, so this could be a function of inbreeding. 

"Tracy L. Ford" wrote:
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> 
> And several other birds have been found with claws that are buried in the
> callus. In doing research work for Darren Tanke's HUGE Paleopathology
> bibliography, I ran across several ornithological papers that describe
> 'clawed' wings. But they were buried in the skin and useless.

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Dann Pigdon                   Australian Dinosaurs:
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Melbourne, Australia        http://www.alphalink.com.au/~dannj/
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