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These Tiny, Little-Winged Dinosaurs Were Probably Worse at Flying Than Chickens - ScienceAlert

These Tiny, Little-Winged Dinosaurs Were Probably Worse at Flying Than Chickens - ScienceAlert

These Tiny, Little-Winged Dinosaurs Were Probably Worse at Flying Than Chickens - ScienceAlert
Oct 26, 2020 56 secs

The discovery of two small dinosaurs with bat-like wings a few years ago was a palaeontologist's dream.

Just how flight evolved in birds is something we're still trying to nail down, and looking at this early evolution of bat-like wings in dinosaurs could give us a clue.

However, weird wings on extinct critters mean it's likely multiple types of wings (and therefore flight) evolved over the years, and that Yi and Ambopteryx's attempts were not the winning strategy.

In 2015, when Yi was found, that team of researchers suggested that the size of its wings and other flight characteristics could mean it was a gliding creature – however it's unlike any other glider we know of, and its centre of mass might have made even gliding difficult.

"We find that Yi and Ambopteryx were likely arboreal, highly unlikely to have any form of powered flight, and had significant deficiencies in flapping-based locomotion and limited gliding abilities.".

But although it's a bit sad for the Yi and Ambopteryx, it's good news for us – the findings give even more evidence that dinosaurs evolved flight (or at least tried to) multiple times

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