{"ok":true,"article":{"slug":"crocodiles-can-t-fly-birds-can-scientists-have-finally-figured-out-why-63c96d7c","title":"Crocodiles can't fly. Birds can. Scientists have finally figured out why","url":"https://phys.org/news/2026-08-crocodiles-fly-birds-scientists-figured.html","canonical":"https://www.aimode.news/article/crocodiles-can-t-fly-birds-can-scientists-have-finally-figured-out-why-63c96d7c","sourceName":"Phys.org","summary":"The closest living relatives of crocodiles and alligators are, perhaps surprisingly, birds. Both are archosauriforms, a group of species that originated about 250 million years ago near the beginning of the Triassic period.","category":"Science","image":null,"lang":"en","publishedAt":"2026-08-14T11:10:01+00:00","createdAt":"2026-08-14T11:30:13.145086+00:00"}}