Cormorants chase prey, while anhingas wait motionless. Their metabolism differences may offer insights into human physiology ...

Birds are vertebrate animals adapted for flight. Many can also run, jump, swim, and dive. Some, like penguins, have lost the ability to fly but retained their wings. Birds are found worldwide and ...

Joshua Tyler and Dr Jane Younger found less than a third of water birds dive, and there are three different forms of diving. Wing divers such as penguins use their wings to propel themselves ...

Great skuas are about the same size as herring gulls, with a length of 53-58 cm and a wingspan of 125-140 cm ...

Researchers may have just found the answer: Unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may ...

One of the passengers on the ill-fated plane that crashed Sunday morning sent a text message about the aircraft "not being able to land because of a bird on a wing," in one of the last known texts ...

Two male Rodrigues solitaires fight over a female in the background using club-like wings The extinct Dodo had a little-known relative on another island. This fascinating bird ultimately suffered ...

A little larger than the mourning dove; generally brownish gray above ... Prominent black crescent framing lower edge of auricular. On perched bird, wing patch shows only as a thin white line ...