A flexible tongue, sensitive beak and teethlike cones in the mouth may have helped Archaeopteryx generate enough energy to fly.

A new study suggests features in the prehistoric creature's mouth helped it eat more efficiently, giving the species the energy needed to go airborne ...

A bill that would mostly ban the sale of parrots at pet stores in Rhode Island is under consideration by the House Corporations Committee.

A crew of eagle-eyed harbor patrol officers who rescued a stranded bald eagle from an icy stretch of the Hudson River said ...

The Mary Houston Bluebird Trail becomes a flutter of activity every spring, when people of all ages help band and count birds ...

In the evenings, they fly loudly over our cities, circle over parks, and suddenly settle by the hundreds in bare trees. For some, it seems like a scene from a horror movie—for biologists, it’s a ...

Seabirds undertake some of the most impressive migrations on Earth, but their remote nature means these journeys can be ...

Conceptual artist Lybi Cucurullo’s “Bird’s Eye View” is a series of abstract landscapes based on bird murmurations, the phenomenon where flocks fly together in coordinated, shifting patterns. The ...

They are always in big gangs, always flying as one, like giant airships crossing the city. Starling murmuration isn’t just one spectacle for an hour or so each afternoon; it’s a whole process, a way ...

Many readers will remember the MetaFly, a remote-control robotic insect that flies by actually flapping its wings. Well, its ...

Police teamed up with a Good Samaritan to rescue an injured bald eagle in southwest Florida.