Flying reptiles of the prehistoric skies, pterosaurs, are long extinct but continue to reveal the secrets of evolution. These ...

Long before birds fluttered their wings and took their maiden flight, it was pterosaurs - the distant cousins of birds - that ...

Back in 2009, the "Miracle on the Hudson​" involved a bird strike and a plane taking the same route as Thursday's American ...

The evolution of feathers with an asymmetrical shape, like those of Archaeopteryx, further enhanced the flight capabilities of early birds. After Archaeopteryx, the fossil record suggests that ...

An American Airlines flight had to divert to John F. Kennedy International after takeoff after a reported bird strike caused ...

An American Airlines flight headed to North Carolina from LaGuardia Airport diverted back New York's JFK Airport after a ...

A robot with bird-like legs that can walk, hop, leap and jump for take-off into flight has been designed in Switzerland in an engineering breakthrough that could enable aircraft to operate in ...

Birds, nature’s aerial acrobats ... Interestingly, owls have specialized feathers that allow for near-silent flight, an ...

The 20-minute show highlights the physical and behavioral adaptations of the bird while ... After watching the birds take flight, head inside for museum exhibits that detail even more about ...

Scientists have built a bird-inspired robot with legs that can walk on the ground, hop over obstacles and jump into flight, an advance that may lead to the development of drones for complex terrains.

Hummingbirds zooming around the garden from flower to flower and sipping nectar probably don’t appear at first glance to be models for instruments of war.