It was a typical August evening in St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, when Gill Start went out to the River Great Ouse ...

Modern airplanes are inspired by birds but Princeton researchers find one aspect, we have not used so far and it could help ...

If you ever sit in an airplane row overlooking a wing, then you probably notice multiple flaps along its edges that adjust ...

Princeton engineers found a way to help airplanes avoid stall with lightweight plastic flaps that flutter with pressure ...

Local 10 was on Miami Beach Tuesday when a rehabilitated pelican was released back into the wild by a local nonprofit rescue ...

Evans gently lifted one of the bags off its hook and put his hand inside ... Evans used a ruler to measure its wing and tail. With bird in hand, he walked around his audience to give them ...

They can climb onto other animals to drink their blood, pluck insects from leaves or hover to drink nectar from tropical ...

A team of paleobiologists and zoologists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Linyi University and Wageningen University has ...

White Pelicans. Photo by Karen Lebing. Over 170 bird species were spotted during the recent main session of the 26th annual ...

The technology echoes bird biology, specifically covert wing feathers that birds use when landing or facing turbulent winds.

Taking inspiration from bird feathers, Princeton engineers have found that adding rows of flaps to a remote-controlled aircraft's wings improves flight performance and helps prevent stalling ...