Date: March 13, 2018
Source: European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
The question of whether the Late
Jurassic dino-bird Archaeopteryx was an elaborately feathered ground
dweller, a glider, or an active flyer has fascinated palaeontologists for
decades. Valuable new information obtained with state-of-the-art synchrotron
microtomography at the ESRF, the European Synchrotron (Grenoble, France),
allowed an international team of scientists to answer this question
in Nature Communications. The wing bones of Archaeopteryx were
shaped for incidental active flight, but not for the advanced style of flying
mastered by today's birds.
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