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> Another take on these unusual aerodynamic wings, the only of its kind in the insect world:
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> https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/mosquito-wing-s-the-thing?utm_source=Today+in+Cosmos+Magazine&utm_campaign=ba6923402c-RSS_EMAIL&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5f4ec2b124-ba6923402c-180078025
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> "On the face of it, mosquitoes shouldn’t be able to fly, because their entire angular wing sweep is only 40 degrees, less than half that of honey bees. 
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> "And while the wings beat rapidly, at a frequency of 800 Hz, their strokes are the shallowest of any known insect group. 
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> "Yet fly they can, and with devastating accuracy. Research led by Richard Bomphrey of London’s Royal Veterinary College has discovered exactly how.
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> "In addition to generating lift through leading edge vortices – areas of low pressure at the front of the wing – the mosquitoes also make complementary vortices on wing trailing edges, and an additional type of lift mechanism generated by wing rotation. 
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> "Mosquitoes appear to be unique in utilising this mode of flying, and [b]the evolutionary pressures that led to it remain unclear.[/b] The study was published in Nature Research. " (my bold)
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> Comment: Funny but Darwin-leaning scientists usually have a just so story-to explain these funny wings. What is wrong with design by God?