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 ...

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

Its asymmetry suggested it was a flight feather, possibly from an ancient bird. Von Meyer’s description ignited immediate debate. Some scientists questioned whether the feather truly belonged to ...

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

A FedEx cargo plane traveling from Newark to Indianapolis hit a bird during takeoff Saturday morning, officials said. That strike damaged one of the Boeing 767's engines, causing the engine to catch ...

A dark-eyed Junco is one of the patients admitted into the New Mexico Wildlife Center’s hospital last week. Photo Courtesy ...

A survey of museum specimens reveals that more than a dozen species of the birds sport biofluorescence in feathers, skin or even inside their throats.

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards. They can also fly sideways, forwards, and upside down. Image: Pexels ...

"Feathers are complex structures that have a really well-defined developmental sequence that's hard to change. And when birds lose flight, those feather features disappear in the opposite order ...