"Stuff is eaten by dogs, broken by family and friends, sanded down by the wind, frozen by the mountains, lost by the prairie, burnt off by the sun, washed away by the rain. So you are left with dogs, family, friends, sun, rain, wind, prairie and mountains. What more do you want?"
Federico Calboli
I remember a discussion of this work (or possibly something corroborating it) from a while back where someone speculated on the possibility of early falconiformes predating upon pterosaurs, since they would have been around at the same time.
Rather overenthusiastic IMO; no reason to think that the early, basal falconiformes were aerial predators like todays are. Oh, and the pterosaurs around at the time were huge. 10+ meter wingspans and all.
The skies of the late cretaceous must have been fantastic to see though; modern birds living alongside archaic grades, and pterosaurs thrown in too.
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I remember a discussion of this work (or possibly something corroborating it) from a while back where someone speculated on the possibility of early falconiformes predating upon pterosaurs, since they would have been around at the same time.
Rather overenthusiastic IMO; no reason to think that the early, basal falconiformes were aerial predators like todays are. Oh, and the pterosaurs around at the time were huge. 10+ meter wingspans and all.
The skies of the late cretaceous must have been fantastic to see though; modern birds living alongside archaic grades, and pterosaurs thrown in too.
-R. A. Wilderson
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