running-blind:

canicula:

Statue based on Leonardo daVinci’s famous concept for artificial wings.

Oh wow. This is so COOL

sciencecenter:

“Dragonfly wings, like those seen above, are stiff and heavily veined, representing an early kind of wing, entomologists believe. Wings probably began as protrusions of the insect body: lobes that gave extra gliding stability. The insect’s circulatory system nourished these protruding lobes, and became the veins we now see in insect wings.

Despite being relatively primitive, dragonflies are the fastest flying insects and have been clocked as fast as 35 miles per hour.”

Click through for more about the wing secrets of insects.

karmacoma713:

sculpture is by the amazing Forest Rogers