Researchers may have just found the answer: Unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological niches as birds.

You can know a lot of things about birds just by the shape of their wings. A seafaring albatross, stretching out its sail-like airfoils, lives a very different life from a ground-dwelling antpitta ...

Suzuki says that when birds perch on a branch, their wings similarly become free, which could have led to the development of gestures like the “after you” wing flutter.

Birds change the shape of their wings far more than planes. The complexities of bird flight have posed a major design challenge for scientists trying to translate the way birds fly into robots.

It’s not your typical Vegas-style light show. Single Wing Turquoise Bird formed in 1968 to create light shows at the Shrine Auditorium for the likes of Cream, the Who and the Velvet Underground ...

Miniature flutes crafted 12,000 years ago from bird bones and discovered in northern Israel may have been used for bird calls at a time when humans were refining their interactions with animals, a ...

Birds don't always fly over obstacles; sometimes they run over while flapping their wings. Intrigued by this behavior, scientists from the University of Montana, USA, measured how much energy flap ...

Birds have a much narrow range of wing movements than previously thought, say US researchers, and this changes our understanding of how they must have first learnt how to take to the skies. Dr ...

Plane wings are traditionally strong, thick and sturdy but a team of researchers led by NASA has created a flexible wing that morphs as it flies.

A bird that had previously gone extinct came back to life thanks to a rare evolutionary process known as "iterative evolution." The white-throated rail bird can presently be found on the island of ...

A comparison of bat and bird wings reveals their evolutionary paths are vastly different by Elodie Smith, Cornell University Editors' notes ...