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loosescrews
2203 days 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
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tsimionescu
2203 days ago
Actually, 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).
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ajuc
2203 days ago
Another time it evolved independently was in homo sapiens.
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gnulinux
2203 days ago
I think you meant to say pterosaurs and dinosaurs (in particular, avian dinosaurs, including birds) evolved flight independently.
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