{"id":15042,"date":"2025-06-28T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=15042"},"modified":"2025-06-19T17:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T17:46:08","slug":"the-dinosaur-dilemma-that-darwin-couldnt-solve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/the-dinosaur-dilemma-that-darwin-couldnt-solve\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dinosaur Dilemma That Darwin Couldn\u2019t Solve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Dinosaur Dilemma That Darwin Couldn\u2019t Solve\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yLB839Sir5c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">For over a century, evolutionary biologists have been stumped by a single question: What good is half a wing? Tackling &#8220;Darwin&#8217;s dilemma&#8221; necessitates exploring the fossil record from <em>Archaeopteryx<\/em> to feathered dinosaurs. Afterward, a clever experiment was recreated using modern-day dinosaurs\u2014chickens\u2014to demonstrate the surprising advantage of a proto-wing and finally reveal how dinosaurs took to the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An ingenious experiment with chickens reveals the surprising evolutionary advantage of a &#8220;half wing&#8221; in non-flying dinosaurs, finally solving a puzzle that has stumped scientists since Darwin&#8217;s time.\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/73\/Archaeopteryx_bavarica_Detail.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1096,13409,456,3366,1367,13405,13412,3994,11435,13403,13410,13401,3223,13411,13407,13408,757,13398,25,13406,13414,13400,13399,1092,13402,13404,13387,13397,13413,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-15042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nature","8":"tag-archaeopteryx","9":"tag-are-birds-dinosaurs","10":"tag-be-smart","11":"tag-bird-evolution","12":"tag-charles-darwin","13":"tag-chickens","14":"tag-darwins-dilemma","15":"tag-dinosaur-evolution","16":"tag-dinosaur-to-bird-evolution","17":"tag-evolution-of-feathers","18":"tag-evolution-of-wings","19":"tag-exaptation","20":"tag-feathered-dinosaurs","21":"tag-ground-up-theory-of-flight","22":"tag-how-dinosaurs-learned-to-fly","23":"tag-ken-dial","24":"tag-natural-selection","25":"tag-origin-of-flight","26":"tag-paleontology","27":"tag-pbs","28":"tag-science-experiment","29":"tag-sinosauropteryx","30":"tag-theropod-dinosaurs","31":"tag-transitional-fossil","32":"tag-trees-down-theory-of-flight","33":"tag-wair","34":"tag-walking-with-dinosaurs","35":"tag-what-good-is-half-a-wing","36":"tag-wing-assisted-incline-running","37":"tag-youtube","38":"post_format-post-format-video","39":"cs-entry","40":"cs-video-wrap"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15044,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042\/revisions\/15044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}