The miracle of flight has evolved in hugely diverse ways, with countless variations of flapping and gliding, hovering and diving, murmurating and migrating.Ĭonjuring lost worlds, ancient species and ever-shifting ecologies, this exhilarating new book is a mesmerising encounter with fourteen flying species: from the first fluttering insect of 300 million years ago to the crested pterosaurs of the Mesozoic Era, from hummingbirds that co-evolved with rainforest flowers to the wonders of dragonfly, albatross, pipistrelle and monarch butterfly with which we share the planet today. It’s something so normal, so entirely taken for granted, that sometimes we forget how extraordinary it is. It’s an everyday occurrence, repeated hundreds, thousands, millions of times daily by creatures across the world. This is the miracle of flight as you’ve never seen it before: the evolutionary story of life on the wing.Ī bird flits overhead.
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