Taking Flight: How Animals Learned to Fly and Transformed Life on Earth

'This book soars . . . Parikian is a nature writer at the top of his game.' —Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2023*

This is the miracle of flight as you've never seen it before: the evolutionary story of life on the wing.

A bird flits overhead. It's an everyday occurrence, repeated hundreds, thousands, millions of times daily by creatures across the world. It's something so normal, so entirely taken for grant...