If you look at the sky on a clear day, you will see thousands of birds in flight. By looking at them, man also developed a ...

Birds are perhaps the most colorful group of animals, bringing a splash of color to the natural world around us every day.

Geckos cling to walls using millions of microscopic hairs (setae) on their feet. Scientists replicated this structure to ...

Every fall, the world’s largest albatross colony migrates to the atoll to breed. In fact, Wisdom’s was one of almost 645,000 ...

A tiny, overlooked wrist bone called the pisiform may have played a pivotal role in bird flight and it turns out it evolved ...

Who would have ever guessed that parrots could have better manners than most people? In this mesmerizing scene, a line of vibrant, beautiful parrots calmly wait their turn to be fed. There’s no chaos, ...

In a hilarious video, Porscha the Cockatoo takes her human’s grooming extremely seriously, nearly affixing herself to his ...

It’s a bit like killing two birds with one stone, reviving Flappy Bird from the graveyard of Android and iOS games. On ...

Many bird species undertake incredible migrations, but some, like the Arctic Tern and Sooty Shearwater, travel distances ...

Cloudy mornings on LBK beaches have a pleasing two-fold effect. They allow me to see birds without the glare of water and ...

The dream of flying has always fascinated humanity. In evolutionary history, the ability to fly has emerged independently only three times: in birds, pterosaurs, and, uniquely among mammals, in bats.

Many birds fly, but some, like penguins and ostriches, don't, revealing an evolutionary twist. Flightless birds adapted to ...