Kinematics of wings from Caudipteryx to modern birds
J.-S. Zhao, Y. Saffar Talori, J. K. O'Connor, Jing-Shan Zhao, Jingmai Kathleen O'Connor, Yaser Saffar Talori
This study models the flight capabilities of Caudipteryx and finds that its morphology could not support flight, but larger wingspans might have enabled flight with significant metabolic costs.
bioRxiv · Aug 16, 2018Paleontology