Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many other great questions in her book, The Bird Watching Answer Book. (For the ...

Look at a fruit fly.” Princeton’s Bio-Inspired ... near the front of the wing — exactly where they are in birds. Previously, avian anatomy research has said these feathers play no role in flight. The ...

By Hannah Dailey The 2025 Grammys have officially taken flight thanks to Billie Eilish, who delivered a soaring performance of her standout Hit Me Hard and Soft track “Birds of a Feather” at ...

Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.

After bushfires tore through the Grampians in Victoria's west, little remained except charred trees and burnt debris.

Winter poses several challenges for birds. Scarce food supplies and limited water are obvious challenges for nearly all of them. Extremely cold temperatures, strong winds, driving snow and ...

In the vast urban sprawl of Arizona, the habitat of the tiny western burrowing owl is being destroyed—prompting ...

Their feathers ... Small birds lose about 10 percent of their body weight each night year-round while at rest, he writes in his 2020 book, “What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting ...

Bird feathers and bloodstains were found in both engines of the Jeju Air plane that crashed in December, according to a preliminary investigation released Monday. The Boeing 737-800 was flying ...

His ambition was to make a flying machine from his scientific investigations. But what he wound up creating instead was the seminal work Codex on the Flight of Birds. It pioneered what would ...

Secret World Wildlife Rescue say the bird was 'clearly distressed and unable to fly' due to the 'very sticky' paper.