Birds puff out their necks or chests for several reasons, including self-defense. When a bird feels threatened, they may puff out their feathers and neck and stand as tall as possible, making ...

New research challenges a long-held hypotheses about how flight first developed in birds.

Discover the world's most amazing flightless birds—like ostriches, penguins, and emus. Learn why they can't fly and how ...

With a combination of wind tunnel studies and modeling of inertial forces, aerospace engineer Christina Harvey shows how gulls maintain stable, controllable flight with wrist movements.

An air-filled sac within the birds' lungs is believed to increase the force the birds use to power flight muscles while soaring.

The Summer Reading Program beat goes on, with the Tahlequah Public Library's latest attraction being the Regalia International Birds of Prey. On June 23, the rescue group brought several large ...

For centuries, we’ve been searching for the secret of bird flight. Now we finally have some answers.

With their long necks and sparse feathering on their heads, vultures can be downright scary looking, lacking the majesty of the bald eagle, the sleek style of ravens, or the beauty of hawks.

It took 150 million years for feathered dinosaurs to master flight and become the birds we see overhead today.

The allegory chronicles a group of birds, each representing a human flaw, who try to decide who should be their king.

Researchers marvel at the bird’s record-holding migratory flight of 7,000 or so miles from Alaska to New Zealand at this time of year. No eating or refueling along the way.