A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering ...

More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless, including penguins, ostriches, and kiwi birds. In a new study in the journal Evolution, researchers ...

What is heavier: 1 kilogram of feathers or 1 kilogram of steel? Whilst the answer to this classic riddle is that they both weigh the same amount, it may be surprising to discover that the color of a ...

One of the remarkable abilities that birds possess is their ability to regenerate the feathers that they shed. Unlike human ...

Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found that when birds evolve ...

Etelka is a post-doctoral research fellow exploring aerosol science with biology and engineering.View full profile Etelka is a post-doctoral research fellow exploring aerosol science with biology and ...