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Aerodynamics Show Membrane-Winged Theropods Were a Poor Gliding Dead-end

The bizarre scansoriopterygid theropods Yi and Ambopteryx had skin stretched between elongate fingers that form a potential membranous wing. This wing is thought to have been used in aerial locomotion, but this has never been tested. Using laser-stimulated fluorescence imaging, we re-evaluate their...

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Autores principales: Dececchi, T. Alexander, Roy, Arindam, Pittman, Michael, Kaye, Thomas G., Xu, Xing, Habib, Michael B., Larsson, Hans C.E., Wang, Xiaoli, Zheng, Xiaoting
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7756141/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33376962
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101574