The microdrone was showcased on state broadcaster CCTV 7, where NUDT student Liang Hexiang demonstrated its capabilities by ...

Pterosaurs were an amazing group of flying reptiles that occupied the skies around the same time that dinosaurs roamed on ...

The number of times I have walked into a spider web is pretty comical. At first, I saw them as a nuisance during my forest ...

A Miocene fish fossil with soft tissue and intact pigmentation has been discovered in New South Wales, revealing prehistoric ...

For me, these “flying jewels” are fascinating to watch for their beauty, iridescent feathers, tiny size and impressive speed and endurance.

The pigeon (Columba livia), also called a rock dove, is a stout-bodied bird with a fleshy beak and large wings, with 340 ...

Bird poop: not a topic most people take interest in. However, fascinating discoveries are being made from the feces of one slowly disappearing bird in the U.K. Researchers are analyzing pied ...

The dissection, however, reveals more than just insect anatomy. The different parts of the bug are superimposed with images of ongoing construction in cities. In the image of a longhorn beetle, ... In ...

However, their flight apparatus was rather different to either. The wings of bats are supported by multiple digits (like our fingers). Birds use feathers as structural units in the wings.

This wing tensioning anatomy is among the most sophisticated aeroelastic control systems known to science. The key to applying our knowledge of pterosaurs to future aircraft design comes not in ...