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Published online 17 January 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030113-9

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Flapping a forerunner to flight?

Ancestral bird might have moved like chicken.

Kendall Powell

Chickens have always seemed like farmyard failures at flight. But their flap-and-run technique may represent just the leap needed for theories on the origin of flight to get off the ground.

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