eagles

• eagles

61:2.12The bird life of the planet con­tin­ued to de­velop, but with few im­por­tant evo­lu­tion­ary changes. The ma­jor­ity of mod­ern birds were ex­is­tent, in­clud­ing gulls, herons, flamin­goes, buz­zards, fal­cons, ea­gles, owls, quails, and os­triches.

• descended from enormous ancient reptiles

65:2.9Prob­a­bly the great­est sin­gle leap of all pre­hu­man evo­lu­tion was ex­e­cuted when the rep­tile be­came a bird. The bird types of to­day—ea­gles, ducks, pi­geons, and os­triches—all de­scended from the enor­mous rep­tiles of long, long ago.

• they shall mount up with wings as

97:7.8Lis­ten again to the gospel of this new rev­e­la­tion of the God of Salem: “He shall feed his flock like a shep­herd; he shall gather the lambs in his arms and carry them in his bo­som. He gives power to the faint, and to those who have no might he in­creases strength. Those who wait upon the Lord shall re­new their strength; they shall mount up with wings as ea­gles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”