Dinosaurs take to the air

Richard O. Prum ()
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Richard O. Prum: the Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, University of Kansas

Nature, 2003, vol. 421, issue 6921, 323-324

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2003
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