Winged dinosaur may have resembled a biplane

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: January 23, 2007| Author: Randolph E. Schmid Associated Press | Copyright information

WASHINGTON -- When the Wright Brothers first took to the sky in a biplane, they were using a design nature may have tried 125 million years earlier.

A new study of one of the earliest feathered dinosaurs suggests it may have had upper and lower sets of wings, much like the biplanes of early aviation.

Today, the biplane is widely considered an old-fashioned rarity.

And the design is no longer seen in birds, though it's not clear if it was a step on the way to modern birds o...

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