RE: Great blue heron - Pterosaurs

[don ohmes <d_ohmes@yahoo.com>]

So when the crested ptero's flew, what was the
probable angle of the crest relative to the ground?
45?? Any consensus or front running theories on crest
function?

--- "Mikko K. Haaramo" <mikko.haaramo@helsinki.fi>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> No, their neck vertebrae were much longer and fewer
> in number, also the
> joint-structure differs, resampling more typical
> amniote vertebrae, unlike
> birds saddle-shaped vertebrae.
> 
> --Mikko Haaramo
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Great blue heron - Pterosaurs
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> Great blue heron - Pterosaurs
> 
> Did the longer necked pterosaurs assume the same
> tight 'S' neck posture that
> the Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) does in
> flight?
> 
> R
> 
>