Prominent black crescent framing lower edge of auricular. On perched bird, wing patch shows only as a thin white line along the leading edge of the folded wing.

Taking inspiration from bird feathers, Princeton engineers have found that adding rows of flaps to a remote-controlled aircraft's wings improves flight performance and helps prevent stalling, a ...

Smeets has developed and realized his wings with support from an independent team assembled under the Human Bird Wings project, sharing his progress through a well documented blog and YouTube channel.

A flightless bird with wings like martial arts weapons once thrashed its foes on what's now Jamaica, a new study says.

Archaeopteryx fossils suggest the dino-birds were capable of flapping their wings in flight.

A comparison of bat and bird wings reveals their evolutionary paths are vastly different by Elodie Smith, Cornell University Editors' notes ...

Two tiny bird wings were encased in amber. They were 99 million years old, but they looked as though they could take flight any minute: delicate bones were arched i n the middle of the wings and ...

Monarch butterflies with more white spots on their mostly orange-and-black wings are more successful at long-distance migration. Some scientists think the spots may affect airflow around their wings.

Evolution How Did the Bird Get His Wings? In 1902 Rudyard Kipling published the Just So Stories —How the Whale Got His Throat, How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Leopard Got His Spots, and so on.

Ninety-nine million years ago, two baby birds met an unfortunate end and their severed wings became encased in amber. This is their story.

Feather colour might make a difference to flight efficiency Dark feathers may help birds fly more efficiently. They heat up the animals’ wings and the surrounding air, which might help increase ...

Two tiny wings locked in amber 99 million years ago suggest that in the middle of the Cretaceous period — when dinosaurs still walked the planet — bird feathers already looked a lot like they ...