A new study of ancient feathers adds weight to the theory that primitive birds — close relatives of feathered dinosaurs — were far less versatile fliers than their modern descendants. A new study of ...

Researchers at the Engineering School at Princeton University have taken inspiration from birds to improve flight performance and safety in aircraft. The researchers deployed rows of flaps to the wing ...

An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers—the first ever record of such a ...

Males of a South American forest bird make courtship music with built-in scrapers—just as insects do. This is the first example of a vertebrate producing sound in this manner, scientists report. A ...

One of the first dinosaurs to take to the air had wings with at least one black feather, according to a new study. The team was surprised to discover that the microscopic structure of the ancient wing ...

In hardly any time, and with a little help from your feathered friends, you can make a lightweight bird kite. This tiny toy is attractive and also quite simple to assemble, because the body is plastic ...

Scientists just published their findings from two 99 million-year-old baby dinosaur wings — with feathers still attached — found encased in amber. I'm going to repeat that: We've got two dinosaur ...

The raven-size creature long thought of as the earliest bird, Archaeopteryx, may have been adorned with black feathers, researchers have found. The structures that held the black pigment may have ...

Norm Saake described a dead duck’s wing last week with an appreciation akin to an art lover pondering a favorite painting. “When this duckling hatches, he’s just all full of down. And these feathers ...

The juvenile races during the Breeders’ Cup World Championships are often are the biggest handicapping puzzles mainly due to the inexperience of the participants. In this year’s Grey Goose Breeders’ ...