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 ...

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 ...

Whether birds first evolved flight as ground dwellers or took to the skies from trees has been a longstanding debate. A new study of an ancient four-legged creature called Microraptor gui, poised on ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Fossils of the remarkable dromaeosaurid Microraptor gui and relatives clearly show well-developed flight feathers on the hind limbs as well as ...

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 ...

First flight Scientists using a wind tunnel and a full-scale model have shed light on how feathery dinosaurs adapted to the skies, a new study reports. A widening consensus among palaeontologists is ...

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 ...

New fossil discoveries have changed the view of the early evolution of birds and their powers of flight with a number of small-bodied dinosaurs with feathers on their wings as well as on their legs ...

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, ...

NARRATOR: One day, long ago, life in a forest came to a sudden halt, snuffed out and buried by volcanic ash. One hundred thirty million years later, fossils are all that remain, and some are like ...

IT IS tempting to think of the process of evolution as one of continuous, stately progress towards better-designed organisms. In fact, it is full of blind alleys—as a fossil called Microraptor shows.