Winged Dinosaur." The doc as they create replicas of microraptor, a dinosaur with four feath wings, in an attempt to determine how flight evolved in birds- from the ground up or from the tre down....

Extracted text: Winged Dinosaur." The doc as they create replicas of microraptor, a dinosaur with four feath wings, in an attempt to determine how flight evolved in birds- from the ground up or from the tre down. Answer these questions OR complete the essay. 1. What was the most plausible function of feathers in theropod dinosaurs like deinonychus?| 2. What made microraptor a unique feathered dinosaur? 3. What are the 2 theories about how flight developed? Describe them. 4. What was Xu Xing's original hypothesis for how flight evolved in birds? 5. Why did Ken Dial's studies of birds called chuckers lead him to believe flight developed from the ground up? 6. Larry Martin and David Burnham (U of Kansas) made their 3-D model of microraptor from a mold of a single microraptor fossil. How was the hip joint of the model configured and what does this suggest about microraptor and the origin of flight? 7. The team from the American Museum of Natural History made a sculpted model of microraptor from measurements from several fossil specimens. How did the configuration of the hip joint in their model differ from the U of Kansas team? What does this suggest? 8. What did the wind tunnel experiments at MIT show scientists about the way microraptor could have flown? Short essay: You will be writing a short essay describing which origin of flight hypothesis you believe is the most ho fo 144 4- 4+ & 9. 4. 08