On the threshold of flight
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2015
” We don’t call any rodents “flightless rodents” though almost all of them are. It has evolved in non-vertebrate animals like insects more than once. Soon after carnivores that could hunt on land evolved, things like ancestral centipedes. Indeed, we call the very rare non-fliers “flightless.”
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