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Wings with Stefan Chin

SciShow Tangents

CHAPTER

The Evolution of Wings

Samara: I was like, there are two kinds of wings. There's the wings on the birds and that like vertebrate wings and airplane wings. But as Stefan's poem highlighted, as Samara is a type of is like the winged seed or fruit. It has a name. Got the classic edible wings muscle from chickens and other birds presumably. And the most controversial thing that I saw besides the idea that airfoils are potentially upside down wings, as Stefan mentioned, is that wing is a subset of fin. So whales have fins, which are any sort of, I'm just going to define it with my own body like an appendage that is attached to a larger thing

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