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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Was it a bird? A biplane? Or a dragonfly? A newly published study opens a fresh chapter in the debate over how one of the earliest feathered dinosaurs used two sets of wings more than 125 million ...

The invention of the biplane marked the beginning of manned flight, and now some researchers believe that the wing-on-top-of-wing design was present in an early flying animal as well. A new ...

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 ...

Size of the dinosaur Microraptor gui compared with a human. Scale bar = 1 meter. Credit: Matt Martyniuk University of Alberta-led research reveals that Microraptor, a small flying dinosaur was a ...

Reanalysis of fossil remains suggests that the earliest flying dinosaurs used two sets of wings like a biplane. Collage of images courtesy of Sankar Chatterjee. Reconstruction of flying dinosaur ...

The evolution of airplanes from the Wright Brothers' first biplanes to monoplanes was an inadvertent replay of the much earlier evolution of dinosaur flight, say two dino flight experts. According to ...

The bird wasn’t just buried alongside Microraptor, for its bones are enclosed by the larger animal’s ribs. It must have been eaten, and O’Connor thinks that Microraptor probably killed the bird, ...