• Question: is it possible to grow wings and then have the ability to fly high in the sky?

    Asked by jemjem to Christina, Colin, Jess, Samaneh, Steve on 19 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Colin Dick

      Colin Dick answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      Hi! I don’t want to undermine Red Bull’s famous advertising campaign, but I fear that it is impossible to grow wings =(

    • Photo: Christina Pagel

      Christina Pagel answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      Even if we could grow wings we wouldn’t have the right sort of muscles and bones to fly with them! E.g. birds have hollow bones so they are nice and light and special muscles adapted to flying… i think humans would be pretty bad fliers!

      You can always try hang gliding when you’re older!

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