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This is an annoying teaser for the very long article due to appear here soon: an attempt to counteract the massive web presence of the wholly misleading, mis-educational ReptileEvolution.com. And, no, Longisquama did not really look like this... alas, Dave Peters tells us that it did [the drawing shown here - produced by me - is based on a skeletal reconstruction of Longisquama that Dave published in 2004]. More soon.