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

But high-speed cameras show us what makes these birds perfect flying machines ... to create the illusion that the bird is moving forward, the bird shifts into “reverse gear”—and its beak ...

Birds can transition seamlessly between walking ... While fixed-wing aircraft are highly efficient at flying forward, they lack the ability to take off and land vertically, like drones do, and ...