The Wright Brothers studied bird flight before they designed the first airplane. Now modern aircraft fly higher and faster than any bird, yet no manufactured device matches the graceful movements ...

Birds have long been nature’s masters of flight. Their ability to glide, dive, and twist through the air with ease has ...

A flamingo looks like a bird cooked up by an exuberant ... Chicks hatch with white feathers that turn gray—and later take their pink color from aqueous bacteria and beta-carotene obtained ...

Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple ... of dinosaurs and pterosaurs (the first flying vertebrates with membranous wings) around ...