Active (flapping, powered) flight has evolved in only three groups of vertebrates. Of the three groups, two (pterosaurs and birds) show no trace of gliding antecedents. Bats show many morphological and phylogenetic indications of an arboreal origin of flight.
Active (flapping, powered) flight has evolved in only three groups of vertebrates. Of the three groups, two (pterosaurs and birds) show no trace of gliding antecedents. Bats show many morphological and phylogenetic indications of an arboreal origin of flight.
Active (flapping, powered) flight has evolved in only three groups of vertebrates. Of the three groups, two (pterosaurs and birds) show no trace of gliding antecedents. Bats show many morphological and phylogenetic indications of an arboreal origin of flight.
Active (flapping, powered) flight has evolved in only three groups of vertebrates. Of the three groups, two (pterosaurs and birds) show no trace of gliding antecedents. Bats show many morphological and phylogenetic indications of an arboreal origin of flight.