New study may provide clues to how birds began to fly

Friday, October 19, 2018 - 09:10 in Biology & Nature

For the first time, researchers have measured what is known as the ground effect of flying animals—and it turns out that they save a lot more energy by flying close to the ground than previously believed. The study from Lund University in Sweden supports one of the theories on how birds began to fly.

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