For centuries, scientists have observed that animals in warmer climates have longer limbs—a pattern known as Allen's Rule.

Scientists have analysed a new Archaeopteryx fossil. This fossil reveals specialised feathers. These feathers aided in flight. Archaeopteryx lived 150 ...

Based on what we know of living birds with long wings, the role of tertial feathers is primarily to close the wing gap and ...

Key to the first bird’s flight was likely a set of never-before-seen feathers, called tertials, found on the upper arm of the ...

According to the Cornell Lab or Ornithology, there are four general wing shapes that allow birds to do specific things, such as gliding, soaring, hovering or flapping in the most effective ways. The ...

A Chicago fossil of Archaeopteryx uncovers unknown features, supporting theories of bird evolution from dinosaurs and highlighting its unique flight adaptations.

A new analysis of a pigeon-sized Archaeopteryx fossil in the collection of the Field Museum in Chicago is revealing an array ...

Sibling eaglets Sunny and Gizmo, the offspring of celebrity couple Jackie and Shadow, hatched in March 2025 and are expected ...

To take the edge of invisibility in aerial warfare, China has unveiled various unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly ...

Certainly, the words graceful or athletic do not come to mind. A quail taking flight is somewhat like a rock with a bad set of wings as these pudgy birds madly flap, exerting great effort to get off ...

"Archaeopteryx is not the first dinosaur with feathers, nor is it the first dinosaur with wings. However, we think it is the ...