More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless, including penguins, ...

Scientists found that when birds lose the ability to fly, their skeletons change first, while feathers take much longer to ...

Look out the window long enough and you’ll see a modern-day dinosaur making use of its feathers to soar across the sky. It’s ...

Before Darwin’s theory became central to evolutionary biology, it still had gaps that were left to be filled—until a certain ...

A preliminary report says evidence of a bird strike was found on the Jeju Air plane that crashed into a wall at a South Korean airport, killing 179 people.

Feathered dinosaurs were first reported in the 1990s, but many mysteries remain about how and when feathers emerged.

Bird strikes can cause significant damage to aircraft, with a risk of jet engines losing power should they suck in a bird.

It had feathers and wings ... The 50th anniversary of a key paper on how bird flight evolved ...

Birds are inextricably linked to feathers, which allow them to fly, keep warm and put on dramatic displays. Feathers, however, predate birds—having first belonged to extinct dinosaurs.