Timeline for What ways could flight evolve besides the wings of bats, birds, and bugs?
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| May 1, 2018 at 0:15 | comment | added | James Moore | See Ian M. Banks "The Algebraist" for an exploration of this. A twist (not a spoiler) is that they live on (in?) gas giants. | |
| Apr 30, 2018 at 21:32 | comment | added | Christopher Hunter | This is what I thought as well. Hydrogen electrolysis is good but presumably a creature needs only to be able to metabolize (and capture) a gas that is less dense than the atmosphere around it. Something with multiple "blowholes" could use short puffs of stored gas like directional thrusters | |
| Apr 30, 2018 at 20:57 | history | answered | OhkaBaka | CC BY-SA 3.0 |