Re: Spinosaurs ate pterosaurs

[Amtoine Grant <ajgrant@eastlink.ca>]

> In both cases, we don't know whether the pterosaur was attacked by the 
> theropod (either on the ground or in mid-air) or the theropod was 
> scavenging the carcass.  The authors favor the latter explanation, and 
> regard a capture of a live pterosaur by a spinosaur as "unlikely".  
> I'm not sure this holds for troodontids, though.  If small 
> maniraptorans are thought to have leaped into the air against flying 
> insects on the way to evolving flight, why not pterosaurs too?
OR, couldn't the pterosaur, from a family that is widely agreed to have 
generally had a diet consisting of fish, have been attacked while in 
the water?