Fossils of a four-winged, feathered dinosaur that lived in trees and glided to earth to seize its prey have been unearthed in China, a find that American scientists say could revolutionize the long ...
Whether birds first evolved flight as ground dwellers or took to the skies from trees has been a longstanding debate. A new study of an ancient four-legged creature called Microraptor gui, poised on ...
Whether birds first evolved flight as ground dwellers or took to the skies from trees has been a longstanding debate. A new study of an ancient four-legged creature called Microraptor gui, poised on ...
Ever since the announcement of an exquisitely-preserved specimen of the feathered dinosaur Microraptor gui in 2003, paleontologists have been debating how it might have flown and what relevance it ...
Was it a bird? A biplane? Or a dragonfly? A newly published study opens a fresh chapter in the debate over how one of the earliest feathered dinosaurs used two sets of wings more than 125 million ...
Scientists from the University of Kansas created a model of a Microraptor gui to show its gliding capabilities. ((University of Kansas)) An early four-winged, feathered dinosaur appears to have been a ...
Reanalysis of fossil remains suggests that the earliest flying dinosaurs used two sets of wings like a biplane. Collage of images courtesy of Sankar Chatterjee. Reconstruction of flying dinosaur ...
Size of the dinosaur Microraptor gui compared with a human. Scale bar = 1 meter. Credit: Matt Martyniuk University of Alberta-led research reveals that Microraptor, a small flying dinosaur was a ...
The evolution of airplanes from the Wright Brothers' first biplanes to monoplanes was an inadvertent replay of the much earlier evolution of dinosaur flight, say two dino flight experts. According to ...
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