About 225 million years ago, around the Upper Triassic, you might have looked up into the sky & seen Sharovipteryx, an early gliding reptile, in flight.
And you would NOT have believed what you saw.
Evolution, for a time, tinkered with delta-wing flyers, bizarre pelvis-gliders.
(🧑🎨: Julio Lacerda)
And you would NOT have believed what you saw.
Evolution, for a time, tinkered with delta-wing flyers, bizarre pelvis-gliders.
(🧑🎨: Julio Lacerda)
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It spread its legs to glide, using forelimbs as canard wings to maneuver in Triassic forests.
Aerodynamic models suggest it might or might NOT have had a separate forelimb patagium, as both produce stable, nimble gliding flight.
"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can* suppose."
'Earth Archives' has a nice article on this by Julio Lacerda & Vasika Udurawane.
"Guys, I have an idea."
"Wings on my back legs"
Unrelated, but I read your initial post as Elvis gliders at first glance. Since the universe is queerer than we can suppose, I assume those must exist also.