You may have noticed that almost every species of passerine bird has a particular method of flying. Woodpeckers (including ...

More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless, including penguins, ostriches, and kiwi birds. In a new study in the journal Evolution, researchers ...

Europe’s largest bat hunts and eats birds midair, finally solving a 25-year mystery about how these nocturnal predators ...

Etelka is a post-doctoral research fellow exploring aerosol science with biology and engineering.View full profile Etelka is a post-doctoral research fellow exploring aerosol science with biology and ...

A 56 million-year-old fossil bone helps explain how this (mostly) flightless family of birds spread to so many different ...

While some bugs have evolved the ability to detect these comparatively low-frequency ultrasound triangulations, birds have ...