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Dinosaurs take to the air

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  • Richard O. Prum

    (the Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, University of Kansas)

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Flying birds evolved from a group of bipedal dinosaurs. The latest fossil discoveries from China indicate that the dinosaurian ancestors of birds had four wings — and that these animals glided rather than flapped.

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  • Richard O. Prum, 2003. "Dinosaurs take to the air," Nature, Nature, vol. 421(6921), pages 323-324, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:421:y:2003:i:6921:d:10.1038_421323a
    DOI: 10.1038/421323a
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    1. Yaser Saffar Talori & Jing-Shan Zhao & Yun-Fei Liu & Wen-Xiu Lu & Zhi-Heng Li & Jingmai Kathleen O'Connor, 2019. "Identification of avian flapping motion from non-volant winged dinosaurs based on modal effective mass analysis," PLOS Computational Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(5), pages 1-16, May.

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