Scientists examined hundreds of birds in museum collections and discovered a suite of feather characteristics that all flying birds have in common. These “rules” provide clues as to ...

Flying dinosaur fossil with intact feathers reveals how first birds took flight Researchers say set of never-before-seen feathers on upper arm proved key to Archaeopteryx’s flight ...

Some more recently-evolved feather adaptations, like the asymmetry in the flight feathers that allows birds to fly, are easier to change, and thus disappear relatively quickly once birds no longer ...

How dinosaurs were built to fly Like feathers, most of the other traits needed for flight also evolved long before the first birds. Scientists believe many of these features appeared at various points ...

“The first things to change when birds lose flight, possibly even before the flight feathers become symmetrical, is the proportion of their wings and their tails.

Many in divorce and family courts believe that birds of a feather fly together. Another common phrase is that tens do not pick ones. Simply put, the thought is that most litigants are likely very ...

Because birds of a feather don’t just flock together; they start sounding alike, too. Which brings me to something else I’ve come to believe: birds of a feather also fly together.

Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not. The ...

Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not. The ...