Scientists test model dinosaur wings
Friday, January 29, 2010 - 21:21
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A team seeks to discover how the cat-sized Microraptor gui used its four wings to fly. They think it probably glided like a modern flying squirrel. The long-dead bones of a four-winged dinosaur, the cat-sized Microraptor gui , have inspired lively argument among present-day paleontologists. How, they ask, did such an animal coast through the skies?