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Re: Science feather strength debate

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Subject: Re: Science feather strength debate
From: Mike Habib <habib@jhmi.edu>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:56:48 -0400
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On Oct 31, 2010, at 9:05 PM, David Marjanovic wrote:
>> 
> 
> Bats have no keel at all...
> 
> That said, the keel of extant birds does not immediately ossify. It stays 
> cartilaginous and unfossilizable for quite some time.

Just for the record; many bats do have a keel - often on the manubrium rather 
than the sternal body.  I'm sure someone has mentioned this in writing, though 
I don't know where.  I only know about it because I've seen it while measuring 
bats.

Cheers,

--Mike H.

Michael Habib
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Chatham University
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