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Arguments In Favour Of Pterosaurs
The reading states that several arguments have been made agonist powered flight and provides three reasons of support. However, the professor states that pterosaurs might be able to flight and refutes each of the authors' reasons. First, the reading states that pterosaurs were cold-blooded and they would not have been able to generate the energy needed to fly. The professor opposes this point by saying that fossils of pterosaurs indicated that they had a dense hair like covering, which is for warm blood animals. So, the professor explains that the dense hair helps to maintain the internal temperature high when the external temperature was cold. Therefore, the professor staes that pterosaurs like warm blood animals could have produced energy

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