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  2. Aeroplankton - Wikipedia

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    Air mass circulation globally disperses vast numbers of the floating aerial organisms, which travel across and between continents, creating biogeographic patterns by surviving and settling in remote environments. As well as the colonization of pristine environments, the globetrotting behaviour of these organisms has human health consequences.

  3. Plankton - Wikipedia

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    Aeroplankton are tiny lifeforms that float and drift in the air, carried by the current of the wind; they are the atmospheric analogue to oceanic plankton. Most of the living things that make up aeroplankton are very small to microscopic in size, and many can be difficult to identify because of their tiny size.

  4. Flying and gliding animals - Wikipedia

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    Soaring: gliding in rising or otherwise moving air that requires specific physiological and morphological adaptations that can sustain the animal aloft without flapping its wings. The rising air is due to thermals, ridge lift or other meteorological features. Under the right conditions, soaring creates a gain of altitude without expending energy.

  5. Sky lantern - Wikipedia

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    When lit, the flame heats the air inside the lantern, thus lowering its density and causing the lantern to rise into the air. The sky lantern is only airborne for as long as the flame stays alight, after which the lantern sinks back to the ground. In China, Taiwan and Thailand, sky lanterns are traditionally made from oiled rice paper on a ...

  6. List of flying mythological creatures - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of flying mythological creatures.This listing includes flying and weather-affecting creatures. Adzehate creatures; Angel; Arkan Sonney; Basilisk; Boobrie; Cockatrice

  7. Looming and similar refraction phenomena - Wikipedia

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    Looming of the Canadian coast as seen from Rochester, New York, on April 16, 1871. Looming is the most noticeable and most often observed of these refraction phenomena. It is an abnormally large refraction of the object that increases the apparent elevation of the distant objects and sometimes allows an observer to see objects that are located below the horizon under normal conditions.

  8. Lifting gas - Wikipedia

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    While not a gas, it is possible to synthesize an ultralight aerogel with a density less than air, the lightest recorded so far reaching a density approximately 1/6th that of air. [12] Aerogels don't float in ambient conditions, however, because air fills the pores of an aerogel's microstructure, so the apparent density of the aerogel is the sum ...

  9. List of soaring birds - Wikipedia

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    The red kite soaring.. This is a list of soaring birds, which are birds that can maintain flight without wing flapping, using rising air currents.Many gliding birds are able to "lock" their extended wings by means of a specialized tendon.