By Shreya Dasgupta Flamingos, often pictured standing still with their heads submerged in water, make for a pretty picture.

Then there's the strange stomping of their feet. The study finds that flamingos' webbed toes create a pair of vortices that ...

When picturing a flock of flamingos, we often imagine long pink legs planted in a shallow lake and heads submerged as they ...

In a moment straight out of a comedy-romance, one determined flamingo ditches the flock and locks eyes on an unexpected target. As the rest of the birds follow the path laid out by the staff, this ...

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that flamingos are dynamical predators. Using a combination of webbed feet, L-shaped beaks, and fast head movements, ...

Flamingos use swirling water and rapid beak clapping to hunt prey. Learn how this surprising behavior could inspire new ...

New research reveals that flamingos create water tornadoes to trap prey, using their feet, necks, and beaks in a highly ...

Rather than passively filter-feeding, the birds use their heads, beaks and feet to generate motion in the water that funnels invertebrates into their mouths ...

“Flamingos are super-specialized animals for filter feeding,” Ortega Jiménez said. “It’s not just the head, but the neck, ...

Flamingos aren’t passive feeders; they're active predators that create underwater vortices using their beaks, necks, and feet ...

The researchers discovered that the popular pink birds stir up sediment with their webbed, floppy feet, generating spinning ...

Flamingos have developed an amazing variety of techniques to create swirls and eddies in the water to concentrate and eat brine shrimp and other organisms, a biologist found. They stomp dance to stir ...