 | Aristotle and other philosophers of the time attempted to explain the aerodynamics of avian flight. Even after the discovery of the ancestral bird Archaeopteryx... 31 KB (3,876 words) - 16:38, 13 February 2024 |
| "Assessing Arboreal Adaptations of Bird Antecedents: Testing the Ecological Setting of the Origin of the Avian Flight Stroke". PLOS ONE. 6 (8): e22292... 113 KB (11,903 words) - 23:57, 21 April 2024 |
| of climate change, demonstrating an example of evolutionary change following Bergmann's rule. Aurornis Lack's principle Origin of avian flight Origin... 28 KB (3,235 words) - 23:58, 24 March 2024 |
 | Proavis (category Evolution of birds) origin of avian flight rested in a predatory behaviour, the "proavis" jumping on its prey from trees (see pouncing proavis model in Origin of avian flight)... 9 KB (1,172 words) - 10:22, 8 March 2023 |
2024 in archosaur paleontology (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of April 2024) such activity occurred at the base of Maniraptora, prior to the origin of avian flight. The Cretaceous fossil record of avialans from China is reviewed by... 103 KB (10,407 words) - 15:37, 26 April 2024 |
 | Alan Feduccia (category University of Michigan alumni) evolution of flight. Feduccia's skepticism about the origin of birds from theropods and a "ground-up" origin of avian flight, which in the absence of any evidence... 52 KB (5,741 words) - 19:21, 25 April 2024 |
 | Microraptor (category Multispecific non-avian dinosaur genera) "Assessing Arboreal Adaptations of Bird Antecedents: Testing the Ecological Setting of the Origin of the Avian Flight Stroke". PLOS ONE. 6 (8): e22292... 53 KB (6,245 words) - 17:51, 18 January 2024 |
| Archaeopteryx (category Multispecific non-avian dinosaur genera) lake and marine deposits (see Origin of avian flight). In 2004, scientists analysing a detailed CT scan of the braincase of the London Archaeopteryx concluded... 103 KB (11,157 words) - 23:10, 21 April 2024 |
 | would eventually give rise to the origin of flight in avian species. Evolution of birds Origin of avian flight Origin of birds Zhang, H.; Wang, M.; Liu,... 4 KB (339 words) - 12:48, 23 April 2024 |
 | Paraves (category Evolution of birds) Archaeopteryx, of which 11 specimens have been found, both complete and partial. Origin of birds Origin of avian flight Evolution of birds Biogeography of paravian... 30 KB (3,121 words) - 12:05, 26 March 2024 |
 | Dinosaur (redirect from Non-avian dinosaur) modern-day surviving avian lineage (birds) are generally small due to the constraints of flight, many prehistoric dinosaurs (non-avian and avian) were large-bodied—the... 283 KB (28,166 words) - 05:49, 24 April 2024 |
 | Bird (redirect from Avian proteins) evolution of avian flight from a new clade of Early Cretaceous ornithurines from China and the morphology of Yixianornis grabaui". Journal of Anatomy.... 233 KB (23,344 words) - 21:06, 22 April 2024 |
 | fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates within various taxa of the animal kingdom. Many species of animals possessing dorsal... 7 KB (819 words) - 21:07, 12 April 2024 |
 | "Feathered Coelurosaurs from China: New Light on the Arboreal Origin of Avian Flight". In Currie, Philip J.; Koppelhus, Eva B.; Shugar, Martin A.; Wright... 90 KB (9,016 words) - 15:09, 26 April 2024 |
 | roosting Tracks Vocalization Bird evolution Origin of birds Origin of avian flight Archaeopteryx Extinct birds Avian ecology field methods Bird census Breeding... 8 KB (533 words) - 13:01, 24 February 2024 |
 | Deinonychus (category Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America) (2001). "The function of the manus and forelimb of Deinonychus antirrhopus and its importance for the origin of avian flight". In Gauthier, J.; Gall... 74 KB (8,372 words) - 18:38, 20 April 2024 |
 | Anchiornis (category Taxonbars of monotypic genera missing species) dromaeosaurs as parasites and a new theory for the origin of avian flight" (Automatic PDF download). Journal of Paleontological Sciences. 6: 1–27. Xu, X.; Li... 38 KB (4,444 words) - 17:50, 21 April 2024 |
 | and the origin of flapping flight" (Automatic PDF download). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 51 (2): 305–313. Videler, JJ (2005) Avian Flight. Oxford University... 46 KB (5,608 words) - 21:44, 20 April 2024 |
Bird anatomy (redirect from Avian skeleton) the spinal cord. The size and structure of the avian brain enables prominent behaviours of birds such as flight and vocalization. Dedicated structures... 80 KB (9,413 words) - 18:52, 12 March 2024 |
 | The avian brain is the central organ of the nervous system in birds. Birds possess large, complex brains, which process, integrate, and coordinate information... 42 KB (4,924 words) - 04:13, 11 March 2024 |
 | Confuciusornis (category Early Cretaceous birds of Asia) "Biology of basal birds and the origin of avian flight". In: Zhou Z., Zhang F. (eds) Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology... 92 KB (11,482 words) - 14:25, 4 January 2024 |
 | Fish fin (redirect from Evolution of paired fins) have a shared evolutionary origin with those of their terrestrial relatives, the tetrapods. Bony fishes also have a pair of opercula that function to draw... 89 KB (7,622 words) - 11:43, 18 April 2024 |
 | Longisquama (category Middle Triassic reptiles of Asia) Journal of Morphology. 266 (2): 125–66. doi:10.1002/jmor.10382. PMID 16217748. S2CID 15079072. Martin, L. D. (2008). "Origin of avian flight- a new perspective"... 16 KB (1,865 words) - 12:44, 12 April 2024 |
 | Pallen, Mark J.; Matzke, Nicholas J. (October 2006). "From The Origin of Species to the Origin of Bacterial Flagella". Nature Reviews Microbiology. 4 (10):... 61 KB (5,825 words) - 15:21, 13 March 2024 |
evolutionary history of feathers, "Fluff" explains the role of feathers in regulating body temperature, "Flight" discusses the origin of avian flight as well as... 26 KB (2,893 words) - 20:00, 16 March 2024 |
 | paired fins located on the ventral (belly) surface of fish, and are the lower of the only two sets of paired fins (the other being the laterally positioned... 6 KB (678 words) - 15:43, 6 February 2024 |
 | Sinornithosaurus (category Multispecific non-avian dinosaur genera) 2004. Feathered coelurosaurs from China: new light on the arboreal origin of avian flight. In: Feathered dragons (P. J. Currie, E. B. Koppelhus, M. A. Shugar... 24 KB (2,506 words) - 17:53, 18 January 2024 |
Protoavis (category Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes from March 2021) knobs, the attachment point for flight feathers found in some modern birds and non-avian dinosaurs. However, re-evaluation of the fossil material by subsequent... 47 KB (5,683 words) - 15:59, 24 March 2024 |
Optical tweezers Oreste Piro Origin of avian flight Osmoregulation Osmotic pressure Outer mitochondrial membrane Outline of biophysics Overhead throwing... 15 KB (1,545 words) - 11:10, 28 December 2023 |
 | Maniraptora (section Feathers and flight) Maniraptora is a clade of coelurosaurian dinosaurs which includes the birds and the non-avian dinosaurs that were more closely related to them than to... 17 KB (1,725 words) - 12:52, 23 April 2024 |