Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of AmericaAnimalsFlightAnimalWingsBiomechanical Phenomena
Microraptor reveals specialized gliding capabilities in multiwinged early paravians.
Csaba Hefler, Ying Wang, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Thomas G Kaye, Maxime Grosmougin, Matthieu Chotard, Luke Barlow, Huihe Qiu, T Alexander Dececchi, Michael B Habib, Wei Shyy, Michael Pittman
Published: 202610.1073/pnas.2518106123
Abstract
Agile and efficient modern flyers like birds and insects rely on complex aerodynamics to increase performance such as leading edge vortices, tip vortices, rapid pitch rotations as well as wing-wake and wing-wing interactions. However, their evolution…
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