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Flying dinosaur preferred to hoof it while hunting
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6-2-2008 12:41 AM
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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/243dfae2-58ae-4cd2-98c8-4f88568d06b8/AEAB71E4-9C60-4293-B813-FC6D39AC535C/" 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.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=news-bytes-may-30" href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=news-bytes-may-30" style="font-size: 11px;">www.sciam.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=news-bytes-may-30"><H1>News Bytes of the Week: Flying dinosaur preferred to hoof it while hunting</H1></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.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=news-bytes-may-30"><DIV class="image-slides"> <IMG width="320" alt="" src="http://www.sciam.com/media/inline/36164514-0066-307C-31E2511F74962924_1.jpg" id="articleImg" /> <P class="caption" id="articleImgCap"><STRONG>THE AZHDARCHID:</STRONG> A study of azhdarchid anatomy, footprints and the distribution of their fossils shows these flying reptiles,which could grow as big as a giraffe and have a wingspan of up to 33 feet (10 meters), probably preferred to hunt on foot.<BR /><SPAN>Courtesy of Mark Witton</SPAN></p> </DIV></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.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=news-bytes-may-30">That's what the winged azhdarchid dinosaur apparently figured while on the hunt back in the day—65 million to 230 million years ago. </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.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=news-bytes-may-30">Researchers at the <A href="http://www.plosone.org/doi/pone.0002271">University of Portsmouth in England report</A> in <EM>PLoS ONE</EM> that the dinos were more likely to stalk prey on foot than by flying over and swooping in for the kill. </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.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=news-bytes-may-30">azhdarchids—which could grow as tall as giraffes, with wingspans of up to 33 feet (10 meters)</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.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=news-bytes-may-30">Azhdarchids' closest relatives today: large ground-feeding <A href="http://www.sciam.com/topic.cfm?id=birds">birds</A> such as ground-hornbills and storks.</blockquote><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); 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