Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many ...

Birds have been migrating for all of recorded history, but how they pull off their globetrotting travels without a map or GPS ...

Equally surprising is the fact that we still do not know how birds actually stay airborne.

Researchers have discovered that birds breathe with greater efficiency than humans due to the structure of their lungs -- looped airways that facilitate air flows that go in one direction.

New research uncovers the negative link between flight-worthiness and fight-worthiness in birds. Evolutionary pressure demanded that birds could either fly or arm themselves -- but not both ...

Trilobites How Do Flying Snakes Glide Through the Air? ‘It’s Hard to Believe’ As they wiggle and undulate, the snakes are transforming their bodies for flight.

Nature Why Do Birds Fly in Vs? Endangered Bird Solves the Mystery The ibis—a large bird with a long, subtly hooked orange beak—became extinct in Central Europe in the 17th century.

Study Reveals ‘Elegant’ Mechanics of How Birds Fly in Gusty Winds Stabilizing an aircraft in gusty conditions has perplexed aerospace engineers since the beginning of human flight. Even in the age of ...

IN SPITE OF THE occasional thump into a clear window, birds are remarkably adept at flying through narrow passages at high speeds and new research has revealed just how they do it. A recent Australian ...

Before birds, bats and pterodactyls, insects were the only creatures that had evolved the ability to fly: a miracle of physics and physiology requiring their bodies to act in coordinated ballet.