Photos shared to social media claim to depict a swarm of starlings flying through the air often, incredibly, in the shape of ...

But of course birds in flight leave no trace—at least none visible to the naked eye. Bou, now 38, spent the past five years trying to capture the elusive contours drawn by birds in motion ...

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“Free Birds” is an undistinguished little movie, the would-be cute telling of how a couple of turkeys try to get their kind off the Thanksgiving menu. Note: “would-be cute.” It isn’t cut ...

And when birds lose flight, those feather features disappear in the opposite order that they first evolved." When bird embryos develop feathers, those feathers increase in complexity in the same ...

His findings could contribute to our understanding of animal flight in general and hummingbird mating systems in particular. Most birds produce substantial upward force—aka lift force—only ...