Purple martins are gorgeous backyard birds, known for their iridescent feathers and mid-sky acrobatics. As North America’s ...

Animals often evolve to have certain characteristics that help them escape predators more effectively. Some of these ...

Congress of the Birds, the only specialized nonprofit to treat sick and injured birds in RI is nearing completion on a new ...

An interesting safety feature found on turboprops is called Propeller Feathering. What is it, and how does it work?

Using unconventional methods, the researchers showed just how good birds are at distinguishing wasp mimics from the real ...

Analysis of feathers trapped in amber sheds new light on evolutionary path that led to early birds’ ability to fly.

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.

A newly analysed Archaeopteryx fossil, acquired by the Field Museum in 2022, reveals specialized tertial feathers, crucial for stable flight 150 million years ago. This feature, absent in non ...

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 ...

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 ...