Re: help: reptile scale to bird feathers

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At 12:28 30/05/97 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Manfred Krautter <manfred.krautter@po.uni-stuttgart.de> asks:
>
>> can anybody give me some hints how reptile scales developed into feathers
>
I think it is obvious that since feathers end in quills like that they
evolved from porcupines who fell out of trees and tried to fly. The
better ones at gliding preferentially were selected as birds. The slower
moving porcupines fell less often, that is why porcupines take so long
to climb trees and birds still nest in them.

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