Dinosaur-bird Archaeopteryx could fly, but in bursts: Study
Dinosaur-bird Archaeopteryx was capable of flying despite skeletal differences from modern birds, but in frenetic breaks, according to a study in the journal Nature. Birds evolved in Jurassic era from small feathered dinosaurs, and represent the only dinosaurs which survived the mass extinction event 66 million years ago, noted researchers, who studied the 150-million-year-old fossil using lasers.