Skip to comments.
Bird wings evolved from biplane dinosaurs
Cosmos Online ^
| 1/23/07
| Jacqui Hayes
Posted on 01/22/2007 4:20:12 PM PST by LibWhacker
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21 next last
To: LibWhacker
Interesting. L'd never heard of 4 wing dinosaurs.
To: LibWhacker
A Biplane dinosaur.....now I've heard of everything.
To: From many - one.
I've seen some huge dragonflies that always remind me of some prehistoric (or alien!) movie or something.
4
posted on
01/22/2007 4:25:48 PM PST
by
geopyg
(Don't wish for peace, pray for Victory.)
To: LibWhacker
There has been so much fraud in this subject, like about 100%, that I'm surprised anybody would put his real name on a story like this.
5
posted on
01/22/2007 4:29:07 PM PST
by
SmartAZ
To: LibWhacker
"Either it was an evolutionary experiment in one group of dinosaurs that eventually failed ..."
They weren't just biplanes, they were scientists too!
To: LibWhacker
Do they know if any of these dinosaurs had ivory beaks?
To: SmartAZ
8
posted on
01/22/2007 4:40:44 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: From many - one.
Four winged dinosaur?
Strange, isn't it?
"This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.
Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings."
9
posted on
01/22/2007 4:45:01 PM PST
by
azhenfud
(The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
To: LibWhacker
A biplane wing is a more complex design too. I wonder.
To: LibWhacker
The team realised that this wing configuration could not provide a Microraptor with powered flight; the dinosaurs would have been capable only of gliding. More importantly, the dinosaur had no way of lifting their wings up, so during a ground-based take-off the wings would have been damaged.
By analysing the dinosaur's aerodynamics, the researchers calculated that Microraptor could have travelled more than 40 metres with a small jump from a tall tree. It would have fallen quickly to begin with, but then could have swooped back up to land on the branch of another tree. So they were merely falling... with style. ;^)
/Toy Story
To: LibWhacker
Curse you, Red Baronosaurus!!
12
posted on
01/22/2007 4:48:30 PM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: azhenfud
To: geopyg
How about a wingspan of 30 inches?
Dragonflies from during the Carboniferous era were that big (before dinosaurs, about 300 million years ago.
To: LibWhacker
I thought that pigs could fly once too. Ham on the Fly.
15
posted on
01/22/2007 5:25:45 PM PST
by
laweeks
(I)
To: laweeks
No thanks ... I'll have ham on rye.
16
posted on
01/22/2007 5:46:18 PM PST
by
dartuser
("Until they love their children more than they hate us, there will be no peace" Golda Meir)
To: LibWhacker
Now this is worth looking at.
To: LibWhacker
18
posted on
01/22/2007 7:51:41 PM PST
by
LiteKeeper
(Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
A Biplane dinosaur.....now I've heard of everything. Just so. Kitty Hawk-o-saurus.
To: nonsporting
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson