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Following the moment of
impact, the dragonfly's
powerful rear legs enter
the equation. During
flight its legs are fold-
ed up, then quickly
opened to seize the

prey. Now the lower
jaws quickly tear
the prey apart and
devour it.
The dragonfly's
visual ability is also
flawless. The dragon-
The drag-
onfly hunts its fly's eye is regarded as
prey on the wing,
thanks to its superior maneu- the best insect eye in exis-
verability. Its strong lower jaw tence. Its two eyes each pos-
can tear apart its prey.
sesses around 30,000 lenses. 118 These
hemispherical eyes cover most of its head, giving the insect a wide
field of vision. Thanks to these eyes, a dragonfly can almost a good
deal of what is going on behind it.

THE MICROWORLD MIRACLE In the picture there is a 128

million year old dragonfly
fossil. There is no differ-
ence between the oldest
dragonfly fossils yet dis-
covered and specimens
alive today, proving they
were created b God and

230 never evolved at all.