150 million-year-old mystery solved: How the first bird learned to fly. (AI Image) For more than a century, one question has divided scientists: How did the first birds take flight?Did they evolve from dinosaurs that ran across the ground before taking off? Or did they glide down from trees before developing powered flight?A landmark study published in August 2026 may finally have an answer.According to researchers from the University of Southampton and the National Natural History Museum in Paris, the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx, didn't launch into the...