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About YDAWtheShow
YDAWtheShow (@yourdinosaursarewrong) is an Education creator on Instagram, also filed under Education & Career. The account has 45,673 followers and 257 published posts. Recent posts average 1,771 likes and 13 comments, an engagement rate of 3.61%.
With 45.7K followers, YDAWtheShow is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Set against 241 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 190 followers per account YDAWtheShow follows. YDAWtheShow uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files YDAWtheShow under Education, with Education & Career as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for YDAWtheShow runs to 14 words. The latest activity Flinque has on record for YDAWtheShow dates from June 2026.
257 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for YDAWtheShow, 9 are videos and 1 is a carousel. That mix leans toward videos. 257 published posts give YDAWtheShow a moderate archive on Instagram. Against the audience, that is roughly 178 followers for each post published. All 10 carry captions, averaging 231 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include dimbo, font, created, jayvee and sources. The captions tag #dinosaur, #dinosaurs, #science, #biology and #paleontology.
So what about leg feathering? Does it indicate an animal was secondarily flightless? Enter the Microraptor...
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Xu, X., & Zhang, F. (2005).
A new maniraptoran dinosaur from China with long feathers on the metatarsus.
Naturwissenschaften, 92(4), 173–177.
Zheng, X., Zhou, Z., Wang, X., Zhang, F., Zhang, X., Wang, Y., Wei, G., Wang, S., & Xu, X. (2013).
Hind wings in basal birds and the evolution of leg feathers.
Science, 339(6125),.
O'Connor, J. K., & Chang, H. (2015).
Hindlimb feathers in paravians: Primarily "wings" or ornaments?
Biology Bulletin, 42(7), 616–621.
Chotard, M., Wang, X., Zheng, X., Kaye, T. G., Grosmougin, M., Barlow, L., Kundrát, M., Dececchi, T. A., Habib, M. B., Zariwala, J., Hartman, S., Xu, X., & Pittman, M. (2025).
New information on the Hind limb feathering, soft tissues and skeleton of Microraptor (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae).
BMC Ecology and Evolution, 25(1), 1–29.
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Pei, R., Pittman, M., Goloboff, P. A., Dececchi, T. A., Habib, M. B., Kaye, T. G., Larsson, H. C. E., Norell, M. A., Brusatte, S. L., & Xu, X. (2020).
Potential for Powered Flight Neared by Most Close Avialan Relatives, but Few Crossed Its Thresholds. Current Biology, 30(20), 4033–4046.e8.
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Pittman, M., Kaye, T. G., Wang, X, Zheng, X., Dececchi, A., & Hartman, S. A. (2022).
Preserved soft anatomy confirms shoulder-powered upstroke of early theropod flyers, reveals enhanced early pygostylian upstroke, and explains early sternum loss.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
#dinosaur #dinosaurs #science #biology #paleontology
At least some of the little tree-climbing Jurassic theropods, the scansoriopterygids, had webs of skin between their long fingers--but that doesn't make them bird prototypes!
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Xu, X., Zheng, X., Sullivan, C., Wang, X., Xing, L., Wang, Y., Zhang, X., O'Connor, J. K., Zhang, F., & Pan, Y. (2015).
A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran theropod with preserved evidence of membranous wings.
Nature, 521, 70–73.
Wang, M., O’Connor, J. K., Xu, X., & Zhou, Z. (2019).
A new Jurassic scansoriopterygid and the loss of membranous wings in theropod dinosaurs.
Nature, 569, 256–259.
Napoli, J. G., Fabbri, M., Ruebenstahl, A. A., O'Connor, J. K., Bhullar, B.-A. S., & Norell, M. A. (2025).
Reorganization of the theropod wrist preceded the origin of avian flight.
Nature, 1–7.
Pei, R., Pittman, M., Goloboff, P. A., Dececchi, T. A., Habib, M. B., Kaye, T. G., Larsson, H. C. E., Norell, M. A., Brusatte, S. L., & Xu, X. (2020).
Potential for Powered Flight Neared by Most Close Avialan Relatives, but Few Crossed Its Thresholds. Current Biology, 30(20), 4033–4046.e8.
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Dececchi, T. A., Roy, A., Pittman, M., Kaye, T. G., Xu, X., Habib, M. B., Larsson, H. C. E., Wang, X., Zheng, X. (2020).
Aerodynamics Show Membrane-Winged Theropods Were a Poor Gliding Dead-end.
iScience, 23(12).
CC BY 4.0
Gao, C., Chiappe, L. M., Meng, Q., O’Connor, J. K., Wang, X., Cheng, X., & Liu, J. (2008).
A new basal lineage of Early Cretaceous birds from China and its implications on the evolution of the avian tail.
Palaeontology, 51(4), 775-791.
#dinosaur #dinosaurs #science #biology #paleontology
But what about membranes? Dinosaurs using feathers to fly is actually pretty novel. Most vertebrates that fly use skin membranes, like you see on bats or pterosaurs. It turns out that birds (and their ancestors) have them too!
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Falk, A. R., Kaye, T. G., Zhou, Z., & Burnham, D. A. (2016).
Laser Fluorescence Illuminates the Soft Tissue and Life Habits of the Early Cretaceous Bird Confuciusornis.
PLOS ONE, 11(12), e0167284.
Pennycuick, C. J. (2008).
Modelling the flying bird (Vol. 5).
Academic Press.
Zhang, F., Zhou, Z., Xu, X., Wang, X., & Sullivan, C. (2008).
A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran from China with elongate ribbon-like feathers.
Nature, 455, 1105–1108.
Cau, A. (2008, Oct 1).
"Super Theropod Week, Part 1: Scansoriopterygid paleobiology, more than just bird origins!"
Theropoda.
Xu, X., Zheng, X., Sullivan, C., Wang, X., Xing, L., Wang, Y., Zhang, X., O'Connor, J. K., Zhang, F., & Pan, Y. (2015).
A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran theropod with preserved evidence of membranous wings.
Nature, 521, 70–73.
Wang, M., O’Connor, J. K., Xu, X., & Zhou, Z.
(2019).
A new Jurassic scansoriopterygid and the loss of membranous wings in theropod dinosaurs.
Nature, 569, 256–259.
Dececchi, T. A., Roy, A., Pittman, M., Kaye, T. G., Xu, X., Habib, M. B., Larsson, H. C. E., Wang, X., Zheng, X. (2020).
Aerodynamics Show Membrane-Winged Theropods Were a Poor Gliding Dead-end.
iScience, 23(12).
CC BY 4.0
#dinosaur #dinosaurs #science #biology #paleontology
Anchiornis is a little guy with lots of feathers. Like, a lot a lot of feathers. Sometimes more than twice the 9 to 11 primaries we see in other flightless animals. But research suggests that they weren't using those feathers to fly. So what could they have been for? And what could it mean?
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PMOL-AD00107
photo by Dlyj0604
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Wang, X., Pittman, M., Zheng, X., Kaye, T. G., Falk, A. R., Hartman, S. A., and Xu, X. (2017).
Basal paravian functional anatomy illuminated by high-detail body outline.
Nat. Commun. 8, 14576.
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Pittman, M., Kaye, T. G., Wang, X, Zheng, X., Dececchi, A., & Hartman, S. A. (2022a).
Preserved soft anatomy confirms shoulder-powered upstroke of early theropod flyers, reveals enhanced early pygostylian upstroke, and explains early sternum loss.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Pei, R., Pittman, M., Goloboff, P. A., Dececchi, T. A., Habib, M. B., Kaye, T. G., Larsson, H. C. E., Norell, M. A., Brusatte, S. L., & Xu, X. (2020).
Potential for Powered Flight Neared by Most Close Avialan Relatives, but Few Crossed Its Thresholds. Current Biology, 30(20), 4033–4046.e8.
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Pittman, M., Bell, P. R., Miller, C. V., Enriquez, N. J., Wang, X., Zheng, X., Tsang, L. R., Tse, Y. T., Landes, M., & Kaye, T. G. (2022b).
Exceptional preservation and foot structure reveal ecological transitions and lifestyles of early theropod flyers.
Nature Communications, 13(7684), 1–14.
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Kiat, Y., & O’Connor, J. K. (2024).
Functional constraints on the number and shape of flight feathers.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(8), e.
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Kiat, Y., Wang, X., Zheng, X., Wang, Y., & O’Connor, J. (2025).
Wing morphology of An
So there is one animal from the end of the Mesozoic in Europe that is actually known from more than 1-5 bits of remains. Balaur is a chonky guy that is set apart from other animals like dromaeosaurids. But was it primarily or secondarily flightless?
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Csiki, Z., Vremir, M., Brusatte, S. L., & Norell, M. A. (2010).
An aberrant island-dwelling theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Romania.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(35), 15357–15361.
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Cau, A., Birch, S. A., & Naish, D. (2015).
The phylogenetic affinities of the bizarre Late Cretaceous Romanian theropod Balaur bondoc (Dinosauria, Maniraptora): dromaeosaurid or flightless bird?
PeerJ, 3, e1032.
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Elzanowski, A. (1999).
A comparison of the jaw skeleton in theropods and birds, with a description of the palate in the Oviraptoridae.
Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, 89, 311-323.
#dinosaur #dinosaurs #science #biology #paleontology
Animals evolving secondary flightlessness didn't wait for the K-Pg extinction to happen. They didn't have time for that!
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Alvarenga, H., Bonaparte, J. F. (1992).
A new flightless land bird from the Cretaceous of Patagonia.
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Series 36, 51–64.
Agnolin, F. L., & Martinelli, A. G. (2009).
Fossil birds from the Late Cretaceous Los Alamitos Formation, Río Negro Province, Argentina.
Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 27(1), 42-49.
Buffetaut, E., Angst, D., Mechin, P., & Mechin-Salessy, A. (2019).
A femur of the giant bird Gargantuavis from the Late Cretaceous of Var (south-eastern France).
Carnets Natures, 6, 47–52.
Buffetaut, E., & Angst, D. (2013).
New evidence of a giant bird from the Late Cretaceous of France.
Geological Magazine, 150(1), 173-176.
Pérez-Pueyo, M., Puértolas-Pascual, E., Moreno-Azanza, M., Cruzado-Caballero, P., Gasca, J. M., Núñez-Lahuerta, C., & Canudo, J. I. (2021).
First record of a giant bird (Ornithuromorpha) from the uppermost Maastrichtian of the Southern Pyrenees, northeast Spain.
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 41(1).
Cau A. (2024).
A Unified Framework for Predatory Dinosaur Macroevolution.
Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 63(1): 1-19.
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Castillo-Visa, O., Baiano, M. A., Brusatte, S. l., Galobart, À., & Vila, B. (2025).
The last non-avian theropods of Europe: Palaeoecology and Biogeography inferred from dental records from the uppermost Maastrichtian of Catalonia, Spain.
Cretaceous Research, 106199.
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Andrews, C. W. (1913).
On some bird remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Transylvania.
Geological Magazine 5: 193–196.
Stoicescu, V., Vlad, A. C., Bordeianu, M., & Solomon, A. A. (2024).
Elopteryx at Nălaţ-Vad: new theropod material described from the Haţeg
It turns out that the number of primary feathers birds and their relatives have had remained remarkably stable over MILLIONS of years. It has remained 9-11 all of that time. What could this mean for learning about the ancient species that were secondarily flightless. Or for their ancestors?
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Flightless Steamer Duck (Tachyeres pteneres)
photo by Ealdgyth
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African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus)
photo by Lee Vilenski
CC BY-SA 4.0
Greater Rhea (Rhea americana)
photo by Octávio Nogueira
CC BY 2.0
Kiwi (Apteryx mantelli)
photo by The.Rohit
CC BY 2.0
Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius)
photo by donalddavesne
CC BY 4.0
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Napoli, J. G., Fabbri, M., Ruebenstahl, A. A., O’Connor, J. K., Bhullar, B.-A. S., & Norell, M. A. (2025).
Reorganization of the theropod wrist preceded the origin of avian flight.
Nature, 1–7.
Uno, Y., & Hirasawa, T. (2023)
Origin of the propatagium in non-avian dinosaurs.
Zoological Letters, 9(1), 1–8.
Kiat, Y., & O'Connor, J. K. (2024).
Functional constraints on the number and shape of flight feathers.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(8), e.
Zoller, N., Miller, K., Habib, M. B., Larsson, H. C. E., & Dececchi, T. A. (2024).
Flying through the air with the greatest of ease? Evaluation of glide capability in basal maniraptoran theropods.
Dakota State University Annual Research Symposium. 44.
#dinosaur #dinosaurs #science #biology #paleontology
Some very motivated researchers managed to recreate the muscles of the chest of early flapping dinosaurs. Eventually we found out that living theropods (birds) have remnants of this system. Could some of their relatives have eventually developed full flight using these muscles?
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Pittman, M., Kaye, T. G., Wang, X, Zheng, X., Dececchi, A., & Hartman, S. A. (2022).
Preserved soft anatomy confirms shoulder-powered upstroke of early theropod flyers, reveals enhanced early pygostylian upstroke, and explains early sternum loss.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
CC BY-NC-ND
Grosmougin, M., Wang, X., Zheng, X., Kaye, T. G., Chotard, M., Barlow, L. A., Deccechi, T. A., Habib, M. B., Zariwala, J., Hartman, S. A., Xu, X., Pittman, M. (2025).
Forelimb feathering, soft tissues, and skeleton of the flying dromaeosaurid Microraptor.
BMC Ecology and Evolution, 25(1), 1–25.
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Degernes, L. A., & Feduccia, A. (2001).
Tenectomy of the supracoracoideus muscle to deflight pigeons (Columba livia) and cockatiels (Nymphicus hollandicus).
Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery, 15(1), 10-16.
Pei, R., Pittman, M., Goloboff, P. A., Dececchi, T. A., Habib, M. B., Kaye, T. G., Larsson, H. C. E., Norell, M. A., Brusatte, S. L., & Xu, X. (2020).
Potential for Powered Flight Neared by Most Close Avialan Relatives, but Few Crossed Its Thresholds. Current Biology, 30(20), 4033–4046.e8.
#dinosaur #dinosaurs #science #biology #paleontology
The debate between the "trees-down" and "ground-up" origin of flight in dinosaurs went back and forth for some time. That is, until the 20th century when a new contender arrived: "Wing-Assisted Incline Running". It supposes that the juveniles may have used their developing wings and muscles to power themselves up slopes or to slow falls. Could this have helped them develop in such a way that they could eventually fly?
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Dial, K. P. (2003).
Wing-Assisted Incline Running and the Evolution of Flight.
Science, 299(5605), 402–404.
Dial, K. P., Jackson, B. E., & Segre, P. (2008).
A fundamental avian wing-stroke provides a new perspective on the evolution of flight.
Nature, 451(7181), 985-989.
Hutchinson, J. R. & Allen, V. (2008).
The evolutionary continuum of limb function from early theropods to birds.
Naturwissenschaften 96, 423–448.
Dececchi, T. A., Larsson, H. C. E., & Habib, M. B. (2016).
The wings before the bird: an evaluation of flapping-based locomotory hypotheses in bird antecedents.
PeerJ, 4, e2159.
Pei, R., Pittman, M., Goloboff, P. A., Dececchi, T. A., Habib, M. B., Kaye, T. G., Larsson, H. C. E., Norell, M. A., Brusatte, S. L., & Xu, X. (2020).
Potential for Powered Flight Neared by Most Close Avialan Relatives, but Few Crossed Its Thresholds. Current Biology, 30(20), 4033–4046.e8.
Chiappe, L. M. (2007).
Glorified Dinosaurs: The Origin and Early Evolution of Birds.
John Wiley and Sons.
#dinosaur #dinosaurs #science #biology #paleontology
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YDAWtheShow (@yourdinosaursarewrong) is an Education creator on Instagram, also filed under Education & Career. YDAWtheShow uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for YDAWtheShow runs to 14 words.
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YDAWtheShow has 45,673 followers on Instagram (45.7K). Set against 241 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 190 followers per account YDAWtheShow follows. 257 published posts give YDAWtheShow a moderate archive on Instagram.
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