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[scouse]

How do you get an animal with little dinky wings to fly?"

It's easy; getting it past the screeners at the airport is the hard thing. :^))

[StriperSniper]

suggest primeval birds actually started flapping to stay closer to the ground.

Why? Was the air full of helium at the time?;-)

[grobdriver]

"There's a problem in explaining how the intermediate forms leading up to flight are selected for. How do you get an animal with little dinky wings to fly?"

They have to run very fast. Aerodynamics 101
This from a scientist?

[Phaedrus]

... flapping to stay closer to the ground.

This is a HOOT! Utter speculation yet taken seriously (by some in the media). The UPI will next, I suppose, begin reporting wings as "gravity helpers".

[Darth Dan]

Bird wings can help keep birds down, not up (BREAKING)

"Whitey" keeping them down.

(For the "humorly" challenged here, it's just a joke, please no flames)

[Monti Cello]

This is crap. What is the aerodynamic effect of a short stumpy wing? Do squatty birds with claws really have room to gain traction in this ridiculous way? Enough to justify invest in new appendages to do so? It's all ludicrous.

I think if someone plucked all my feathers out I might not run up hills as fast either.

[AdA$tra]

It works for Indy cars.

[Dementon]

Crevo ping

[fish hawk]

must be another of thoes 28 million dollar studies?? I cant wait for April 15 to help out!!!

[stanz]

A stretch. Sounds like circular reasoning to me.

[slimer]

The evolution of bird flight has proved controversial for more than a century

The whole theory of evilution has been controversial from the beginning, since there has not been one shred of evidence of any creature "evolving" into something else. Creatures naturally adapt to their environment but nothing has "evolved" yet.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Just like Indy race cars. The put wings on the cars to hold them closer to the ground. Later the wings started lifting the cars and causing accidents so the wings were clipped. Same with skirts.