Analysis of birds’ feathers could reveal which dinosaurs were capable of flight, a new study has found. Scientists have for a long time struggled to understand the differences between the wings ...

Computer animators and video game designers may soon have a better way to create the purple-green sheen of a grackle's wing, ...

A wildlife rehabilitator caring for the injured raptor said it could take two or more years for the feathers to return and give flight.

They were totally gone. The feathers had been cut almost all the way to where they connect to the bone... And the tail is ...

Laboratory analyzes nature and how it’s related to engineering, drawing real-world applications from concepts like specific ...

These small feathers on top of birds’ wings lay flat during normal flight but flare up in turbulence during landing. By attaching flexible plastic strips – “covert flaps” – to the top of ...