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How come hummingbirds are able to fly backwards?

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Cornelia Borrmann
January 28, 2025

Hummingbirds are acrobats of the air that owe their unique agility to anatomical peculiarities and a missing gene. This Tomorrow Today viewer question comes from Frederick B. in Ghana.

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