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3. Off topic, but I wonder why a 4 winged configuration has not re-evolved in birds?

Wed Mar 14, 2012, 01:33 AM

Mar 2012

Birds like doves need rapid climb flight behavior to survive ambush predators, four wings could be useful.

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They are making all those giant lizard movies obsolete Warpy Mar 2012 #1

This was bird size Yo_Mama Mar 2012 #2

There's a simple evolutionary answer. laconicsax Mar 2012 #4