A very small clue!!


	A very small clue!!

Solar Child

8-20-2009 5:37 PM

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pterosaur, dinosaurs, birds, footprints

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No matter the size of the clue, everything helps to find an answer.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/12745d43-d792-4961-a616-a997b27f6615/276A805A-85EA-4096-BC98-8FD71B9DD4CA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17633-pterosaur-tracks-show-it-touched-down-like-a-bird.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17633" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17633-pterosaur-tracks-show-it-touched-down-like-a-bird.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17633" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17633-pterosaur-tracks-show-it-touched-down-like-a-bird.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17633"><H1>
Pterosaur tracks show it touched down like a bird
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The lowest prints are of the rear limbs only. Towards the top of the trackway the pterosaur turned to the left and walked away on all fours (Image: Proceedings of the Royal Society B)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17633-pterosaur-tracks-show-it-touched-down-like-a-bird.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17633"><P class="infuse">An exceptional set of footprints preserved in 150-million-year-old rock near Crayssac in south-west France holds some answers to <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/topic/dinosaurs" alt="pterosaur" omd="zodJump('http://widgets.zibb.com/images/_jump.gif?tag=InfusionJS&url=http:%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Ftopic%2Fdinosaurs&gsid=pterosaur&entitytypeid=kw&lid=http://www.newscientist.com/topic/dinosaurs&title=pterosaur&intref=infusion&variantName=pterosaur&zodid=96')" class="infusionLink">pterosaur</A> behaviour. They record the moment a small pterosaur came into land, says <A target="ns" href="http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/people/padian/home.php">Kevin Padian</A> at the University of California, Berkeley.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17633-pterosaur-tracks-show-it-touched-down-like-a-bird.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17633"><P class="infuse">Padian's team says the prints are similar to those produced by a landing bird. Although most pterosaur tracks show the animals walking on all fours, the first prints in the newly discovered tracks are of the rear limbs only.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17633-pterosaur-tracks-show-it-touched-down-like-a-bird.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17633"><P class="infuse">That's because the pterosaur used its wings to "stall" as birds do, says the team, so that the animal's body swung up from a horizontal flight position to near vertical, enabling it to land gently on its hind feet.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/276A805A-85EA-4096-BC98-8FD71B9DD4CA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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