Feathers

Feathers

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Click to see a video of a modern bird using stability flapping during predatory behavior. It all fits! Also, apparently Microraptor had *four* wings? The past keeps getting cooler! (And there's more of it every day!)

See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qpdk-U8fI0

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