Re: birds DID NOT evolve from ther[o]pods

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> >I see. But how are lift and thrust beneficial in grabbing prey?
>
> Lift and thrust get the predator closer to the prey.  This is also the
> selective force hypothesized in many gravity-opposing ("ground-up")
models,
> especially those that picture proavians as dedicated
flying-insect-catchers.
>   However, I would aver that the advantage of having gravity with you
rather
> than against you in trying to achieve lift and airspeed came *before*
> powered flight, not after.

So wings evolved trees-down, the flight stroke whatever-up, and powered
flight trees-down, all among scansorial* animals?

* Finally found somewhere what "scansorial" means: able to climb and
frequently doing so, but not necessarily arboreal at all, which means living
in trees. Cats (Felidae or suchlike) are scansorial but not arboreal.

> (And before I get accused of "Kippling" :-) ,

Not by me. FUCHSIA doesn't exactly have a lot more fossils to show...