Technically insects don’t use wings supported by bones or cartilage, but physics works differently at their size anyway. There are flying fish and apparently also gliding lizards, namely Draco lizards, and gliding geckos and frogs — but afaik none of these can do sustained flight.
what if they were made of cartilage
Technically insects don’t use wings supported by bones or cartilage, but physics works differently at their size anyway. There are flying fish and apparently also gliding lizards, namely Draco lizards, and gliding geckos and frogs — but afaik none of these can do sustained flight.
Then they wouldn’t have the rigidity necessary for flight