Was it a bird or was it a plane?

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Mock up of a Kuehneosaur flying over a Triassic landscape. Photo by Simon Powell
Mock up of a Kuehneosaur flying over a Triassic landscape. Photo by Simon Powell

A new study of extinct flying reptiles called kuehneosaurs, has shown that of the of the two genera found in Britain, Kuehneosuchus was a glider while Kuehneosaurus, with much shorter "wings," was a parachutist.


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