RE: Bird-like tracks from Late Triassic (new Nature issue)

["Williams, Tim" <TiJaWi@agron.iastate.edu>]

Dinogeorge wrote:

> I think that, much like today, there were non-perching shorebird-like or
> wading dino-birds contemporary with and descended from the perching
> variety.  Those are niches begging to be filled.

Enter the pterosaurs?

BTW, after reading the paper, it's clear why Melchor et al. refer to the
footprints as 'bird-like' rather than 'bird' or 'avian'.


Tim



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