Males of a South American forest bird make courtship music with built-in scrapers—just as insects do. This is the first example of a vertebrate producing sound in this manner, scientists report. A ...

Four years ago, a researcher reported a bizarre example of sexual selection in a rare South American bird: The male attracts the female by rubbing specialized wing feathers -- more than 100 cycles per ...

A new study of ancient feathers adds weight to the theory that primitive birds — close relatives of feathered dinosaurs — were far less versatile fliers than their modern descendants. A new study of ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. A down feather illustrates the varied assortment of barbs that allow it to ...

The answer is not as simple as saying, “because birds fly.” Birds such as penguins, emus and kiwis don’t fly at all despite having complex feathers. But most birds do fly, and their entire bodies, ...

Could pigeons be the model for a new generation of flying robots? That's what the researchers who built PigeonBot, a robotic pigeon with actual feathered wings, seem to be betting. Having birdlike ...

Rescued by a veterinarian in Curaçao, the charismatic bird has become a local celebrity—and spokesbird for environmental ...

Researchers at Festo have announced the creation of a new bionic project called the "BionicSwift." The robotic bird can fly using artificial feathers. The researchers used radio-based indoor GPS with ...

It started with a fantastically gothic bird wing. Diners lucky enough to experience Noma’s first-ever “game and forest season” in the fall of 2018 were served a tempura-fried mallard wing, its inky ...

Birds display a rainbow palette of colors, many of which come from special arrangements of melanin, the pigment that gives color to our skin. A team at the University of Akron has developed a new type ...