Pterosaurs were an amazing group of flying reptiles that occupied the skies around the same time that dinosaurs roamed on land. Appearing in the fossil record around 230 million years ago, pterosaurs ...

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Highly deformable flapping membrane wings suppress the leading edge vortex in hover to perform better. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2025; 122 (6) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2410833121 ...

Using a paper-thin rubber membrane, the team designed wings that mimic the physiology of the muscles in a bat's wing, changing shape in response to the forces it experiences.

Bats appear to use a network of hair-thin muscles in their wing skin to control the stiffness and shape of their wings as they fly, according to a new study. The finding provides new insight about ...

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This article was originally published with the title “ Taking Wing: Uncovering the Evolutionary Origins of Bats ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 299 No. 6 (December 2008) doi:10.1038 ...

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The jointed, flexible wing anatomy of pterosaurs also meant that the wings could fold tightly, and unlike the wings of birds, the folded wings of pterosaurs doubled as powerful walking limbs.