Archaeopteryx flight

[Carrie Carlson <rexclr@altavista.com>]

  I apologize if this question is as redundant as I think it is, but I was 
wondering:  Is all of this talk of Archaeopteryx being unable to fly proven 
theory or just speculation?  

   Many thanks for any response!

     Carrie "Rex" Carlson =)





On Sat, 01 September 2001, "David Marjanovic" wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mickey Mortimer" <Mickey_Mortimer11@msn.com>
> To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 10:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Ornithomimid beaks
> 
> 
> > I never thought of mononykines having beaks before, but
> > I suppose their tooth distribution is similar to Pelecanimimus.
> 
> AFAIK they had much less and much smaller teeth.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Waylon Rowley" <whte_rbt_obj@yahoo.com>
> To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 9:40 PM
> Subject: Giant caenagnathid pix
> 
> > I found an interesting site that shows fairly high
> > quality photos of Mike Triebold's giant caenagnathid
> > at:
> >
> > http://www.trieboldpaleontology.com/casts/oviraptor.htm
> >
> > Worth looking at.
> 
> Indeed...
> Very short tail (shorter than the legs it seems) with something like 30
> vertebrae... unless the chevronless end of the tail is a *Nomingia*-style
> pygostyle (impossible to see).
> 
> While I am at writing about bird relatives... I've found the following
> yesterday and no rebuttal of it, at least not before mid-October 1994:
> http://www.cmnh.org/fun/dinosaur-archive/1994Sep/0022.html
> Says *Archaeopteryx* was incapable of flying [in air B-) ] because its wing
> feathers aren't asymmetric _enough_.


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