Batwinged, feathered dinosaur was a weird, failed experiment in flight

Like the Wright Brothers, evolution didn't get flight exactly right the first time. It takes experimentation to find the best design, and now palaeontologists have found one of nature's quirky side projects – a strange dinosaur that was covered in feathers but had leathery bat-like wings.

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Category: Science

Tags:

• Bats
• Birds
• Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Dinosaurs
• Evolution
• Flight
• Flying
• Fossils

from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2HaHArV