The Standard-Winged Nightjar is one of the coolest and strangest looking birds I've seen. When I first watched this video, I ...

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 ...

Birds are vertebrate animals adapted for flight. Many can also run, jump, swim, and dive. Some, like penguins, have lost the ability to fly but retained their wings. Birds are found worldwide and ...

a flight feather is shaped asymmetrically, the leading edge thin and stiff, the trailing edge long and flexible. To generate lift, a bird has merely to tilt its wings, adjusting the flow of air ...

Besides bats, birds are the only living vertebrates capable of powered flight. So, what features help them to do this? Traits required for flight, such as wings, a lightweight skeleton and flight ...

Three rare bird species were sighted in Alabama over the last week. See which unique species were spotted and what we know ...

Birds use feathers to keep warm. Flight – Birds fly by flapping their wings and using their tales to steer. Birds such as penguins, emus, ostriches and kiwis are unable to fly. Herbivores ...

Birds have long been our inspiration for flight, and researchers at Princeton University have found a new trick in their arsenal: covert feathers. These small feathers on top of birds’ wings lay ...

Imagine you're learning to fly a plane when the unthinkable happens: a bird slams into the window while flying at night.

and gears that would mimic a bird’s muscle and bone, took decades of work by aircraft engineers. The first aircraft capable of varying the sweep of its wings in flight was the Bell X-5 ...