Secrets of bird flight revealed
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Scientists believe they could be a step closer to solving the mystery of how the first birds took to the air.
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U.S., Canadian and British scientists have created a new way of determining how extinct species moved that's independent of analyses of limb structure.
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Birder Mathew Tekulsky reveals the effectiveness of a concealed location for viewing birds, as he describes the behavior of quail and jays in his yard.
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The work of Prof. Naomi Ehrich Leonard at Princeton University shatters barriers, interweaving control theory, fluid mechanics, robotics, and biology.
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No other birds fly as stealthily as owls. Now flight engineers are researching owl-feather-inspired technology to build quieter aircraft.
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A new fossil discovery from China shows that a tiny squirrel-like creature glided through the air during the age of dinosaurs, more than 75 million years earlier than scientists had documented that ability in a mammal.
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The ancient family tree where all the world&#39;s birds perch is getting bigger, odder and older, scientists announced Wednesday. In a report in Thursday&#39;s issue of the journal Nature, paleontologists
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The feathered creatures winging across North America have an obvious gift that land-bound humans lack, but their survival is threatened by earthly concerns.
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A bird known by her wing band number, 256, is about to cause a huge flap in genetics, one which could change our understanding of human evolution and bird behaviour and help to prevent another global influenza pandemic.
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Birdman of Belair Mathew Tekulsky waxes on the serendipitous moments when birds and timing alight together for memorable photographs.
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Spiraling plane rides, dangerous comics, moonwalking birds, and other fascinating videos.
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The People's Daily Online reports Chinese scientists have successfully implanted electrodes in pigeons' brains to control the birds' movements. Reminds us of U.S. attempts to create remote-controlled shark spies. In Danger Room.
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A new species of flightless bird has been discovered on Calayan, a remote island in the Philippines, by an Anglo Filipino expedition.
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By using video of singing birds played back in super slow motion, scientists are teasing apart the mechanics of the beak's role in birdsong&#151;and what that may mean when it comes to selecting a mate.
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A bird species new to science has been found by researchers on a remote island in the northern Philippines.
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Homing pigeons use the Earth's magnetic field to navigate their way home over long distances, scientists claim.
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Birder Mathew Tekulsky describes the bathing habits of birds, explaining the dependence of birds on water.