Though that's unthinkable for human beings, there are animals designed to undertake superlong ... In its lifetime, an Arctic Tern will fly the distance equivalent to three journeys to the Moon.

They live in southeast Asia and reach lengths of up to 1.5 metres ... dinosaurs learned to fly, including scansoriopterygids. From the goblin shark to a tiny wasp named after a creature in Harry ...

Schneider remembers that, back then, like most new pilots, he was perennially seeking opportunities to fly—hours in the air—and some of those opportunities involved transporting shelter animals. It ...