The Wright Brothers studied bird flight before they designed the first airplane. Now modern aircraft fly higher and faster than any bird, yet no manufactured device matches the graceful movements and ...

City birds are changing fast. Their wings are getting shorter and rounder to navigate busy streets and buildings. Beaks are also adapting to urban food sources. These rapid evolutionary shifts show ...

New research based on high-resolution x-ray movies reveals that despite having extremely underdeveloped muscles and wings, young birds acquire a mature flight stroke early in their development, ...

Birds do it, and bees do it. But until recently, scientists thought the birds and bees did it in different ways. We’re talking about flying, of course. Researchers have known for years that insects ...