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Added 2019-04-23 18:02:38 +0000 UTCThe next guest Kallie's interviewing for our Eonites-only podcast is Hila Tzipora Chase, a PhD student at the University of Montana's flight laboratory studying the biomechanics and evolution of bird flight. Their research focuses on the adaptation of bone microstructure in the avian shoulder and seeks to find structure-function patterns that can be used to better understand extant birds, as well as interpret the fossil material of their ancestors.
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Comments
Would it be very difficult to create an ornithopter? Do you think the long arm feathers of raptors were initially developed for threat displays, or some other reason?
Noeladoe
2019-04-28 20:57:41 +0000 UTCThanks for a great series. I've always wondered how difficult, from a brain utilization standpoint, is flying. It seems that the ability to fly was maybe a tradeoff to having a larger brain. Do flightless birds have larger brains? Are they "smarter"?
Kwan Lowe
2019-04-26 22:28:58 +0000 UTCCan we tell difference between the fossil of an animal that can fly and one of an animal that can glide?
Mathieu C
2019-04-25 22:38:07 +0000 UTCI teach seventh grade science. My student Loor wants to know, "How DID bird wings evolve?". Thank you!
Liz Shoemaker
2019-04-25 18:10:05 +0000 UTCHow do you do your job? Aka, what specific details do you look for, what tools do you use, what people and organizations do you work with or have working for you?
Charles Bosse
2019-04-23 20:26:57 +0000 UTCIs there anything we can look for in fossils that can tell us anything more about the weather / biomes that extinct birds / avian dinosaurs inhabited? Are there any clues that can tell us things like if it was windy, or if they migrated?
JohnWyatt
2019-04-23 18:52:52 +0000 UTC
