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According the the Wikipedia page on animal flight, dinosaurs and birds are believed to have evolved flight independently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_
by loosescrews 6y ago
According the the Wikipedia page on animal flight, dinosaurs and birds are believed to have evolved flight independently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_and_gliding_animals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_and_gliding_animals
- tsimionescu 6y agoActually, according to that article pterosaurs, that are explicitly not dinosaurs, evolved flight separately from the dinosaurs/birds (with two other separate times flight evolved mentioned, in insects and in bats).
- ajuc 6y agoAnother time it evolved independently was in homo sapiens.
- gnulinux 6y agoI think you meant to say pterosaurs and dinosaurs (in particular, avian dinosaurs, including birds) evolved flight independently.