A robot with bird-like legs that can walk, hop, leap and jump for take-off into flight has been designed in Switzerland in an engineering breakthrough that could enable aircraft to operate in ...

Current research indicates as many as 1 billion birds die annually in the United States due to collisions with buildings during spring and fall migration. But residents in Savannah and coastal Georgia ...

Every year, visitors from all over the country flock to Marion Square on the Charleston peninsula to watch majestic birds of prey swoop mere inches from their heads in a long-practiced flight routine.

Kevin Padian is in the Department of Integrative Biology and at the Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. Why was the question of the origin of bird flight ...