Research project: Investigating the role of the hindlimb in the evolution of avian flight
Few capabilities are more exciting to us than an animal’s ability to fly. With over twice as many species as mammals, birds represent the largest group of tetrapod vertebrate, and their mastery of the air is absolute! But how do they get off the ground, and indeed how did the ancestor of birds endow their descendants with this remarkable mode of locomotion. This project seeks to offer an answer to that question.