His popular book on pterosaurs, Dragons of the Air (1901) found that birds and pterosaurs are closely parallel. Although his belief that they had a common origin has not proved correct, he upset Richard Owen's characterization of the pterosaurs as cold-blooded, sluggish gliders, and recognized them as warm-blooded active fliers.
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