Birds are often associated with flight, but not all of them take to the skies. Around 60 species — fewer than 1% of all bird ...

Airplane wings are modeled after bird wings. The bones and muscles of the wing are also highly specialized. The main bone, the humerus, which is similar to the upper arm of a mammal, is hollow ...

Seeing a woodpecker in action is more extraordinary than most people realize. This tiny bird does incredible things and is ...

Modern birds, along with certain snakes and fishes, have skulls whose jaws and palates are not firmly fixed in place.

Casey Holliday, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences at University of Missouri, received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study how the skulls, jaw ...