Could ‘four-winged’ dinosaurs fly? (Reply)

Zhonghe Zhou () and Fucheng Zhang
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Zhonghe Zhou: Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fucheng Zhang: Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Nature, 2005, vol. 438, issue 7066, E4-E4

Abstract: Abstract Padian and Dial 1 challenge our view that the evolution of flight involved a four-winged stage. This disagreement stems from our different views on the origin of bird flight and from the methodology we use to analyse functional morphology in the non-avian theropod Microraptor2 and in an enantiornithine bird3 from the Early Cretaceous period in China.

Date: 2005
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