Saturday 15 June 2013

These Wings Were Made for Flying


Illustra Media's new documentary Flight: The Genius of Birds shows how and why birds are designed for flight.





Joel Kontinen


Most bird species are excellent flyers, regardless of whether they are huge like the albatross, or very tiny, like the hummingbird.

Blind Darwinian processes do not explain why birds fly. The very obvious conclusion is that they have been engineered to fly, as the new documentary Flight: The Genius of Birds, produced by Illustra Media, shows. Here’s the trailer: