Flying Dinosaurs: What Really Flew in the Age of Dinosaurs (and What Didn’t)
When people say “flying dinosaurs,” they usually mean one of two things:True flying dinosaurs = birds (the only dinosaurs alive today).Dinosaur relatives that flew = pterosaurs (often mislabeled as “flying dinosaurs,” but not dinosaurs).And then there’s a third, fascinating middle ground: non-b...
Chinese scientists discover new evidence of feather evolution
The authoritative American scientific journal "Science" published on December 8, 2000 will publish a scientific research paper by Zhang Fucheng and Zhou Zhonghe, young scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, reporting on the...
How did birds learn to fly?
How do birds learn to fly? Were the earliest birds arboreal creatures that glided from trees to the ground, or were they bipedal land animals that evolved wings and developed a preference for long-distance hopping? Researchers have not formed a unified understanding of this....