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Re: Dinosaurs and birds

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Subject: Re: Dinosaurs and birds
From: Tommy Tyrberg <tommy.tyrberg@norrkoping.mail.telia.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:38:56 +0200
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At 17:09 2007-04-04, dinoboygraphics@aol.com wrote: Outside of the assymetrical feathers (which is a drag-reducing adaptation, not a lift-generating one, although the two are related) there isn't any terribly good reason to assume Archaeopteryx was volant.

As a matter of fact a wing with a lift-producing profile (like Archaeopteryx) will create more, not less, drag than a non-lift producing one.

Tommy Tyrberg

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