A bird flapping its wings or a fish’s deep dive may be pictures of nature in action, but in their elegant simplicity scientists see the complex challenges of merging technology with a biological ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Scientists have long held that birds fly in a V-formation to save energy. But it was only recently revealed how and why birds benefit from this ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) - Rutgers University is working on the next generation of drones, including ones that can go in the water and even flap like a bird. It's not a small submarine, it's ...

If you've ever watched a flying bird weaving its way through a forest, you may have wondered how it could do so without hitting its wings on the trees. Well, birds actually do hit trees with their ...

CHINESE military chiefs have developed a killer bird drone powered by flapping wings, The Sun on Sunday can reveal. The new weapon – known as an “ornithopter” – has been built to resemble a Eurasian ...

SOCORRO, N.M. (KRQE) – Decades ago, there were stories about the CIA strapping cameras to birds to collect intelligence. Today, new “bird tech” stories are emerging from southern New Mexico, this time ...

Long before the Wright Brothers took their first flight, people have tried to take to the skies with all sorts of wacky contraptions—from Leonardo Da Vinci’s helicopters to people who haphazardly ...

An early winged dinosaur couldn’t fly, but it could run. Now, with assists from a robotic dino and young ostriches wearing artificial wings, a study suggests that the dinosaur’s running gait caused ...

Scientists took a creative approach to studying how dinosaurs evolved the flying abilities of modern birds. By Cara Giaimo A young ostrich sprints down a path at a Chinese farm. His neck bobs, his ...