Q: Our lovebird is now a year old. When we bought him as a baby, his wing feathers were trimmed so he would not fly. Now they have grown back and he is flying all over the house. He leaves a mess ...
Charles Darwin once posited that birds might flap their wings to communicate, not just to fly. However, this has always been pretty tricky to test. Now, 150 years later, researchers have discovered ...
Ever since the first humans saw birds gracefully soaring through the sky above their heads, we have been asking two questions: how do they do that, and how can we learn to do that? Centuries of ...
Feathers define birds. Other critters, like insects, fly; but no other critter wears feathers. And what amazing structures they are, these feathers. They allow birds to fly, perform mating displays, ...
A Fork-tailed Flycatcher. Credit: Valentina Gómez-Bahamón, Field Museum Bird feathers have many different functions. Softer down keeps a bird warm and stiffer wing feathers are used for flight.
Dark feathers may help birds fly more efficiently. They heat up the animals’ wings and the surrounding air, which might help increase airflow over the wing. Svana Rogalla at Ghent University in ...
This part of the feather has turned translucent with age. Royal Saskatchewan Museum (RSM/ R.C. McKellar) Well-preserved ancient bird bone in amber. Royal Saskatchewan Museum (RSM/ R.C. McKellar) ...
He wanted to see how many different avians he could find on people’s hats. He counted 542 hats adorned with parts from 174 ...
The world’s two most adorable fossils have been recovered in Myanmar. Two partial wings were found encased in amber, left behind 99 million years ago after baby winged dinosaurs got stuck in tree ...
NEW JERSEY (WABC) -- Birds with burnt tail feathers and wings are turning up near the Meadowlands and animal experts suspect the New Jersey landfills are to blame. Don Torino, President of the Bergen ...
The structures zipping together the barbs in bird feathers could provide a model for new adhesives and new aerospace materials, according to a new study. Researchers 3D printed models of the ...
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