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...sites in the U.S. and Europe over the past few years, argues Martin Lockley of the University of Colorado at Denver, strongly support the latter conclusion. The pattern of these footprints, which range in size from 1 in. to 5 in., suggests that pterosaurs held their bodies in a semierect position, with their long wings folded back so that their clawlike fingers gripped the ground...
...blood a day. It will sip this ration either cold from a dish or warm from a small, painless bite it makes in a convenient extremity of its sleeping provider. Contrary to Draculan film fantasies, the vampire does not fly but tiptoes to its midnight snack in a semierect position. Judging from Miss Leen's photos of the procedure, the creature bears far more resemblance to Lon Chancy hamming up his wolf-man act than to Bela Lugosi spiraling in for an elegant neck shot. Aside from the remote possibility of contracting rabies (bats, like most mammals, can transmit...
From Mr. Starnes's experiences, the scientists last week drew a practical conclusion: they suggested use of a small, accessory anti-spin parachute, to keep jumpers in a semierect position and minimize the distress of swirling...
...audience that man is directly descended from an upright, walking anthropoid. The lowest form of living ape, the gibbon, is the only animal that runs on two feet like man. Other apes hop and leap or go to all fours when on the ground, and are never more than semierect in natural pose. Therefore, he concludes, their present posture has been acquired...
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