Timeline for What Is The Best Wing Design For A Giant Flying Animal
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| Jan 14, 2021 at 16:31 | history | edited | L.Dutch♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 13, 2020 at 15:07 | comment | added | XenoDwarf | @Nosajimiki-ReinstateMonica correction on that, pterosaurs had feather-like structures. They were largely clusters of filaments and not the branching filaments on a central core like feathers. If anything they were stem-feathers. | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 13:39 | comment | added | ProjectApex | I see... It's a very interesting concept to mix both, I honestly would've never thought of it, even as some species seem to show that it could've happened. | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 13:34 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | @ProjectApex Bird feathers and mammal fur are on flexible membranes too. With birds, the flight feathers spread out and contract as the skin between feathers expands and contracts, but because they overlap, thier broadness helps keep them in alignment and ready to fly with. | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 13:28 | comment | added | ProjectApex | I did read about it, the picnofibers and the new species which seemed to have more developed plumage, but I didn't know if they could work on a flexible membrane, as it sounds counterintuitive (but it's counterintuitive that an animal as big as a giraffe could fly so it's not like pterosaurs haven't showed us some crazy things before). | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 13:18 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | @ProjectApex Fossils show that pterosaurs did have feathers, what is debatable is if those feathers helped them fly, or if they were just for warmth more like fur. | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 13:13 | history | edited | Nosajimiki | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 4, 2020 at 0:21 | comment | added | ProjectApex | Legitimate question: Could this association really work? I'm no expert on the membrane part of bat and pterosaur wings, so the concept of feathers linked to the flexible extremities of the membrane seems a little weird to me, due to how thin they are (I assume pterosaurs had thicker membranes due to the special muscle filaments in them to change it's shape and flexibility, but still sounds like it'd be too thin). | |
| Jun 3, 2020 at 20:39 | vote | accept | TommyProductionsInc | ||
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| Jun 3, 2020 at 19:55 | history | answered | Nosajimiki | CC BY-SA 4.0 |