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 ...

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 ...

Fossils of a four-winged, feathered dinosaur that lived in trees and glided to earth to seize its prey have been unearthed in China, a find that American scientists say could revolutionize the long ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THE ancestors of modern birds were built like biplanes, scientists say. More than 125 million years before the Wright brothers made ...

The ancestors of birds may have taken to the air on four wings and a prayer. Paleontologists have recovered from deposits in Liaoning, China, dinosaur fossils that exhibit evidence of flight feathers ...

The discovery of a remarkable four-winged creature – a feathered dinosaur – in the rich fossil beds of Liaoning Province in north-eastern China is said to have ended the 140-year-old debate about the ...

Flight. Did it start on the ground or in the trees? Scientists don't necessarily agree, but new research might just settle the question. Researchers from the University of Kansas and Northeastern ...

In 2002, the discovery of a beautiful and bizarre fossil astonished scientists and reignited the debate over the origin of flight. With four wings and superbly preserved feathers, the 130 million-year ...

Researchers in the United States and China say that they have settled the long-standing question of how bird flight began. A joint team from the University of Kansas and Northeastern University in ...