Ten months without touching the ground sounds made up. Like one of those nature facts you assume got exaggerated somewhere ...

Flight is truly remarkable, no matter which way you look at it. And while it seems easy enough for the tiniest insects to ...

The flight speed of birds is more complex than research has previously managed to show. Researchers have found that birds use multiple -- each one simple yet effective -- methods to control their ...

How did the earliest birds take wing? Did they fall from trees and learn to flap their forelimbs to avoid crashing? Or did they run along the ground and pump their "arms" to get aloft? The answer is ...

For the first time, researchers have discovered that birds can sleep in flight. They measured the brain activity of frigatebirds and found that they sleep in flight with either one cerebral hemisphere ...

Migratory birds coordinate their wing flaps with much more finesse than previously thought, so as to reap the best energy savings from flying in formation, suggests a new study. In 2011, as part of a ...

Visitors at the National Zoo got to get up close and personal with some exotic birds Sunday for Birds in Flight, a free show featuring species from around the world. Kids were able to interact with ...

Scientists may have finally discovered a sort of "Grand Unified Hypothesis" that explains what may determine the plethora of diverse egg shapes for all bird species A newly published study indicates ...

Owing to some horrendously long flight times, scientists have speculated that certain birds are capable of sleep during flight. A remarkable new experiment by an international team of researchers has ...