Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ScienceBIOLOGYEvolution1 Mark
MCQ
The first animals to fly were:
A
Mammals
B
Lizards
C
Birds
✓
Insects
✓
Answer
Correct option: D.
Insects
The first animals to evolve flight were insects. The earliest fossil insects with wings are dragonfly$-$like animals from the Carboniferous, but there are some very fragmentary insect remains from Devonian rocks in Scotland.
The fossils tell that the flight first evolved in insects approximately $410$ million years ago.
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