tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post9046659110363417395..comments2023-10-26T03:19:41.569-07:00Comments on Stephen Bodio's Querencia: Bird OriginsSteve Bodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14434597061701369867noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-82009300744827069152008-02-14T01:14:00.000-08:002008-02-14T01:14:00.000-08:00I remember a discussion of this work (or possibly ...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.<BR/><BR/>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.<BR/><BR/>The skies of the late cretaceous must have been fantastic to see though; modern birds living alongside archaic grades, and pterosaurs thrown in too.<BR/><BR/><BR/>-R. A. WildersonNeutrino Cannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11975378867727506317noreply@blogger.com