Flying is really hard work. Compared to walking, swimming, or running, flying is the form of movement that takes the most ...

The white-backed swallow survives the extreme temperatures of inland Australia by reducing its body temperature to save ...

Wind turbines may seem innocuous enough, but they have the potential to reshape the air birds fly through. In a recent Scientific Reports paper, researchers found that a gliding bird’s lift-to-drag ...

A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering, one comprising nine orders of magnitude, from the nanoscale to the meter ...

In Sturt National Park, near Tibooburra in central Australia where temperatures can range from freezing to nearly 50°C, there lives a small bird with ...

New York’s bird-glass mandate may save birds, but critics question whether the money is better spent on much-needed housing.

After a recent successful bow hunt, JH came out of the woods before daylight vanished. He had his deer loaded and he just sat ...

In 2023 Danny and Michael Philippou’s genre-saving horror debut Talk to Me revitalized the Midnight section of Sundance, and ...

At some point, the Philadelphia Eagles are going to have to explain to their “shareholders” why Kliff Kingsbury has not been ...

Researchers at Princeton University have built a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that “bloom” like flowers in response to ...

The field dates to 2008. Key aims include tracking flying animals to record responses to wind, air pressure, pollution and ...

Using robotic fins, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have learned how stingrays ...