This Week’s Creature Feature ... Dragonflies Catch Dinner and Some Rays Perched to take advantage of the sun Michelle Steel Long before dinosaurs walked the earth, dragonflies took to the air. Griffenflies, the gigantic precursors of our modern-day dragonflies, took flight in the Carboniferous period over 300 million years ago. Their descendants have had plenty of time to spread around the world. Ancient Celts called them big needle of wings. In England ...
July 18, 2013 - Bay Weekly