Science made possible for 1 million pound machines to fly.

A chance discovery by a firefighter has confirmed the presence of endangered eastern ground parrots in northern Tasmania for the first time in decades. Robin Meyers from the Parks and Wildlife Service ...

Africa's secretary bird, a raptor with crane-like legs, delivers powerful, precise kicks to subdue prey like snakes. New research reveals these strike ...

For birds, black feathers provide certain flight advantages. That's because black feathers contain more pigment-packed melanosomes than do feathers of other colors, and melanosomes can bind with ...

I have no problems flying,” says one expert about the FAA’s plan to reduce flights by 10 percent at 40 airports nationwide. “I would get on an airplane tomorrow” ...

Montana photographer Tony Gangemi documented a season in the life of a leucistic Common Loon, from its first days as a ...

The affected birds, Western Grebes, have black and white feathers, long, pointy bills, and distinctive red eyes.

When Lambert started losing his vision and slowing down a few steps, it became clear that he needed to be relocated to a ...

After decades of mystery, scientists have finally proven that Europe’s largest bat, the greater noctule, hunts and eats small songbirds mid-air—more than a kilometer above ground. Using tiny ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon.

Birds that end up far from home, like the New York common cuckoo, are known as “vagrants.” They’re fairly common during ...

Since it dropped last year, “Birds of a Feather” has taken flight as one of Billie Eilish ‘s most successful songs to date.