Science & spaceMoth Light MediaHow Bird Wings came from Dinosaurs

How Bird Wings came from Dinosaurs

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Published Dec 17, 2025, 6:00 PM · 10mo ago

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The transition of dinosaur to bird or non avian dinosaur to avian dinosaur is one of the most captivating changes in evolution. One of the most important parts of this transformation was is the devolopment of wings that have a deep dinosaurian ancestry. For more beautiful non digital paleoart visit TheTimeDuck on Instagram. To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/MothLightMedia To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://www.paypal.me/mothlightmedia To buy merchandise: teespring.com/en-GB/stores/moth-light... Email: [email protected] If I have used artwork that belongs to you but have neglected to credit it this will just be because I was unable to find one. If this has happened please contact me and I will add a credit. Some Art work has been altered for the purposes of bettering them for video format; these alterations were done independent from the artists who created the original work, so they are not responsible for any inaccuracies that could have occurred with the changes being made. Sources: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2025.2529608#d1e178 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep11775 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article/21/2/20240517/63681/The-origin-and-early-evolution-of-feathers https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1145076 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40851-023-00204-x https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339852168_Feather_Evolution_in_Pennaraptora https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-position-of-the-pectoral-girdle-and-the-form-of-the-coracoid-in-different-theropod_fig1_359646666 https://peerj.com/articles/2159/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/10947063_Wing-Assisted_Incline_Running_and_the_Evolution_of_Flight https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-evolution-of-the-wrist-bones-in-the-lineage-leading-to-birds-Incomplete-coloring_fig6_266324945 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394849191_Phylogenetic_relationships_of_Unenlagiidae_among_Paraves_Dinosauria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurornis https://peerj.com/articles/2159/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391739196_Chicago_Archaeopteryx_informs_on_the_early_evolution_of_the_avian_bauplan https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2021.662167/full https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Angle-formed-between-the-main-axis-of-the-scapulocoracoid-glenoid-and-main-vertebral_fig2_343902999 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00435-021-00528-2 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1805803115
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