Bendable, morphing wings covered with overlapping pieces resembling scales or feathers could be used to build more agile, fuel-efficient aircraft, a new study finds.

Archaeopteryx fossils suggest the dino-birds were capable of flapping their wings in flight.

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Yet, the basic arrangement of bird wings hasn’t changed in the last 100 million years. Longrich says, ‘There is something very close to a modern bird wing in the Jurassic archaeopteryx.

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