A Museum of Natural History paleontologist lectures a mix of 3-year-olds and grandparents an amazing evolutionary story. This is a tale of dinosaurs evolving into feathers, then wings—then flight. It took several years. It was, after all, evolutionary. DNA evidence has come to surface that even the mighty T-Rex evolved and took flight!
This image collection of feathers—and wings is an homage to those vertebrates and invertebrates evolving and taking to the air. Lifting off, landing, foraging, roosting and even in portraiture. Feathers and wings are tools of the elegance and majesty in the dynamics called flight. Given a few more millennia maybe man gets there too. Certainly, man has always been envious. And hopeful–if the T-Rex can fly…why not?
Flight, expressed by author Marjory Stoneman Douglas who wrote, “they would move in their white thousands and tens of thousands, with the sounds of great stiff silk banners, birds in flock, birds in wedges, birds in wavering ribbons, blue and white crowds, rivers of birds pouring against the sunset back to their rookeries.”
