Whether they’re opening for takeoff, spreading wide for a lazy soar or flapping to brake for landing, bird wings make flying ...

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

KK: For birds, keeping their plumage clean isn’t about good looks or vanity—it’s essential to their health. Feathers are ...

Its whirring motors burn about four times the amount of power as a plane-like drone with rigid wings. So-called ornithopters, which have flapping wings ... emulate the way birds change the ...

They flap their wings slowly for a few beats ... to slice through the waves like a black skimmer bird. In a flash the pterosaur jerks its head up and veers skyward, gripping a wriggling fish ...

The sight of birds soaring through the sky ... The researchers trialed passive covert flaps atop the wing of a radio-controlled plane. The plastic flap ran the entire wing width and used tape ...

Flying at its design speed of 5m/s, its wings are flapping at 2Hz, consuming 23W ... providing the functions of elevator and fin on a conventional aeroplane. While the bird controls its own flight via ...