Bombers and Dinosaurs Were Both Before Their Time - Issue 59: Connections
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1 In the beginning it was known as TMM 41450-3. Then things got more personal. Yes, life had already taken to the heavens, long ago in the Carboniferous, eons before TMM 41450-3’s discovery in the spring of 1971. Some claim it was from gills that wings had originally sprouted, others that they grew from limbs. Some believe wings were a novelty, arising in tiny nubs that bud during development. There is little to go by; the guessing game rules. But whether wings on the Insects came from breathing or walking, in the waters or on land; whether they had or did not have a prior history—they needed to lift but ounces. And this, in comparison to TMM 41450-3, was child’s play. It was only later that the true challenge came, in the line of the Vertebrates. For there was lift and drag and thrust (...)