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Flying geckos
Topic Started: Jun 8 2010, 12:49 PM (2,095 Views)
Carlos	Jun 8 2010, 12:49 PM Post #1
Adveho in me Lucifero Posts: 11,702 Group: Members Member #5 Joined: May 31, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: Portugayse Favorite Quote: Blame is the playing of children and is given to many like a gift that cannot be returned. Acceptance is the tool of the mature that is rarely loaned out.	I've pretty much overlooked modern gliding geckos all this time, when they are probably the reptiles with the biggest chances of going aerial. I invision future flying geckos as having bat like wings, derived as the membranes along the arms and legs fused to the flaps along the torso. The digits of tthe forelimbs, all with mebranes within them already, and with the thumb already clawless, would be all wing fingers; they could still retain the pads that allow them to climb, thus having the fingers still having the function of gluing the animal to a vertical surface in other to rest, or they could just loose them all together and instead rely just on their feet to stay attached, thus somewhat looking like bats when perching, using their hindlimbs to glue themselves to rocks or trees upside down. I doubt they'd go bipedal though, considering their anatomy.
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Carlos	Jun 29 2010, 04:24 PM Post #46
Adveho in me Lucifero Posts: 11,702 Group: Members Member #5 Joined: May 31, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: Portugayse Favorite Quote: Blame is the playing of children and is given to many like a gift that cannot be returned. Acceptance is the tool of the mature that is rarely loaned out.	Curiously enough, early pterosaurs like anurognathids and scaphognathids had pycnofibril covered wing membranes. For some reason pterodactyloids had naked membranes however.
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Ook	Jun 29 2010, 04:41 PM Post #47
not a Transhuman Posts: 2,933 Group: Members Member #282 Joined: Mar 10, 2010 Gender: Male	is known any glidding pterosaur?i mean ancestor of pterosaurs..or non pterosaur pterosauromorph
Toad of Spades	Jun 29 2010, 05:03 PM Post #48
Clorothod Posts: 624 Group: Members Member #114 Joined: Dec 27, 2008 Nationality: United States Favorite Quote: Street smart is just an excuse for dumb people to use the word smart to describe themselves.	Preondactylus is the most basal pterosaur. However, the ancestors of pterosaurs haven't been discovered yet. The ancestors of pterosaurs were ornithodiran, but nobody has filled in the evolutionary history between the flightless pterosaur ancestors and the basal pterosaurs.
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