Tagged: evolution of flight

Archaeopteryx: The World’s First Bird (Probably)

December 12, 2011 at 6:13 pm

  Archaeopteryx represents a pivotal moment in the evolution of birds, which have come to inhabit every corner of the earth.  This is a species which conveys the transitional period from therapod dinosaurs to early birds.  Archaeopteryx fully maintains many of the characteristics of its running dinosaur relatives, such as sharp teeth and a long bony […]

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The Limit of Aerial Evolution

December 11, 2011 at 7:20 pm

The thought of a Cessna 152 dropping out of the sky from 20,000 ft at 300 mph and pulling out of the plunge five feet off of the ground would scare most pilots to death. But for Argentavis magnificens, it was a lifestyle. Six million years ago, the twenty-three foot wide monster bird would come […]

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