In the animal kingdom, flying is already a marvel. But imagine a bird that can not only hover in place but also fly back ...

Nature never ceases to amaze us, and one of its most fascinating marvels is a bird that can literally sleep in the sky — ...

These birds can’t fly because they have short wings and lack a keel on their breastbone, where other birds have their flight muscles. The wings are used for balance and to break their fall when ...

Hummingbirds are natural acrobats, twisting their wings in ways that let them fly backward and upside down, unlike any other bird (SN: 1/13/16). New high-speed video now shows how, using a bit of ...

Bird wing shape -- a proxy for long-distance flying ability, or dispersal -- is a trait that influences biodiversity patterns on islands around the world, according to biologists.

Here, an illustration of what may be the largest flying bird, an extinct beast with a wingspan of 20 to 24 feet (6.1 to 7.3 meters) that flew the skies some 25 million to 28 million years ago.

Turns out the way birds fly is really not very well understood, as the relationship between the dynamic wing shape and positions of individual feathers are super complex.

Stephen Brusatte, a paleontologist with the University of Edinburgh, thinks it’s time to change the way we think about the evolution of flying birds. Rewind 170 million years. We are in the ...