New evidence helps solve how earliest birds took flight
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The latest coverage reported that a 2026 study published in Developmental Biology presented new evidence indicating the earliest birds used powerful thigh‑driven hops to escape predators before achieving flight, a mode likened to modern crows. Researchers also highlighted a newly identified species that bridges the dinosaur‑bird transition and suggested that the 150‑million‑year‑old Archaeopteryx employed this hopping‑to‑flight strategy.
With these findings, the long‑standing mystery of how the first bird learned to fly was portrayed as solved.
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New evidence helps solve how earliest birds took flight Phys.org · 90d ago broke it first
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