Humans don't have hollow bones like birds do, so how big would our wings have to be to lift us off the ground?

In India, kite-flying has been a way of celebrating connection with nature and worship. Flying kites also represents the ...

Tiny mites seem capable of relying on the power of static cling to hop into hummingbird nostrils and move between flowers.

"The drone was such an asset that I couldn't imagine doing the job without it," researcher Wesley M Sarmento said.

An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...

Two new studies offer insights into the evolution and development of external ears, which appear in humans and other mammals ...

Robins are everywhere once again. The American robin (Turdus migratorius) is a migratory bird. Seasonal movements between ...

Field-defining discoveries can come from new and unexpected places,” palaeontologist Natalia Jagielska told IFLScience.

In Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001), aspiring writer 13-year-old Briony Tallis glimpses a world of opaque “adult emotion”.

A trio of biologists from the University of Connecticut; the Organization for Tropical Studies, in Costa Rica; and the ...

Car is a mechanic sim (and Finnish rural life sim) that will either scare you off with its complexity or induce a tantalising Stockholm syndrome.

According to Sarmento, bear dogs are widely touted for bear hazing, but there is no scientific research on whether they work.