Ancient glider: dinosaur took to the air in biplane style.(microraptor gui, flying dinosaur) From: Science News | Date: January 27, 2007| Author: Perkins, S. | COPYRIGHT 2007 Science Service, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Looks like Mother Nature beat the Wright Brothers to the punch. About 125 million years before the two airmen lifted off at Kitty Hawk in their biplane, a 1-meter-long dinosaur was swooping from tree to tree with the same arrangement of wings, a new study suggests.

Four years ago, paleontologists described a species of feathered dinosaur from China that they named Microraptor gui (SN: 1/25/03,p. 51). A series of long feathers on the creature's legs and feet led those sci...