Flight is a rare skill in the animal world. Among vertebrates, it evolved only three times: in bats, birds, and the ...

Ancient flying reptiles called pterosaurs learned to fly while their brains were small, taking a very different path from ...

One of the most popular shows at the Louisiana Renaissance Festival has a new look this year. If you're a fan of feathered ...

Birds exhibit a wide variety of fascinating nesting and offspring-rearing behaviors throughout their lifecycle. Against the ...

New findings add to evidence that enlarged brains seen in modern birds and presumably in their prehistoric ancestors were not the driver of pterosaurs’ ability to achieve flight, says @HopkinsMedicine ...

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation on Tuesday gave the green light for three men's races to proceed following a ...

BEAVER CREEK – Switzerland’s Didier Cuche won the first day of downhill training during Beaver Creek’s Birds of Prey 2011, for the trivially-inclined. Maybe training results mean something, and maybe ...

Bird conservation charity, RSPB, celebrates the winner of its inaugural competition – the swift has been named the favourite ...

Of all the species of gallinaceous birds that occur in Minnesota, only sharp-tailed grouse, also called "sharptails," and ...

There is a lot to consider when judging the speeds of the world’s fastest birds. Speed can be measured in level flight and ...

Christina Harvey uses wind tunnels at the UC Davis College of Engineering to study bird flight. Harvey is the recipient of a 2023 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering. (UC Davis photo) ...

Birds aren’t real. So says a satirical conspiracy theory claiming that the U.S. government has replaced all birds with surveillance drones. It started as a joke in 2017 and flew across the internet ...