Re: Abbreviation update (was Re: FUCHSIA)

[Ronald Orenstein <ornstn@rogers.com>]

At 03:36 PM 10/08/02 +0200, David Marjanovic wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aspidel" <aspidel@wanadoo.be>
> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 11:07 PM
>
>
> > By FUCHSIA, do you mean it's like some modern birds on the lakes (swans
> > IIRC), which run on the water, flap their wings and start to fly, and
> that's
> > how flight may have evolved?
>
> No, FUCHSIA is the idea that bird flight evolved underwater.

And I'm still waiting for someone to point out aquatic adaptations in ANY 
pre-hesperornithiform (or so) bird, proto-bird, maniraptorian or what have 
you.  Archaeopteryx seems (to me) no better adapted for swimming or diving 
than (say) a roadrunner, a chachalaca or a Velociraptor.


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