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 ...

Recent dinosaur fossil finds have produced more questions than answers about the early evolution of flight as dinosaurs, such as the microraptor, seem to have had feathers on their arms, tail and legs ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. — A joint team from the University of Kansas and Northeastern University in China says that it has settled the long-standing question of how bird flight began. In the Jan. 25 issue of ...

While paleontologist Mark Norell believes that "the animal couldn't physically do it," and anatomist Farish Jenkins adds, "in a morphologist's notebook, that's bad," the team nonetheless tests out how ...

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 ...

NOVA follows the fossil discovery and model recreation of the four-winged dinosaur, Microraptor gui, and investigates competing theories of how birds evolved. profiles the Liaoning Province in ...

Nowadays, feathered dinos are all the rage. Since 1999, over 20 new species have been discovered, ranging from sparrow-sized tree-climbers to thirty-foot tyrannosaurs. Among these bird-like beasts, ...

A life-sized model of a dinosaur has been suspended in a wind tunnel to help test how feathered dinosaurs might have taken to the air roughly 125 million years ago. The results suggest that the small, ...

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