Back in the day, when I hunted ruffed grouse with my father, we often shot at the same bird more than once. That's because we were mediocre marksmen at best, often missing the bird with the first ...

Scientists seeking to understand the mechanics of bird flight have constructed PigeonBot, a robot made from 40 pigeon feathers (and a few other components). While airplanes maneuver by altering their ...

Pigeons: Members of the bird family Columbidae, which includes doves and pigeons. Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Chordata ...

A robot that resembles a pigeon and can make tight turns like real birds may point to the future of aerospace engineering – a continuously morphing wing. Understanding exactly how birds fly has always ...

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… PigeonBot. Humans may have mastered the art of air travel using huge metal tubes and jet fuel, but we’ve yet to create the elegant complexity that ...

Building a drone that can fly like a bird by using feathered wings and actual feathers may seem counterproductive or even silly, though awesome from a high school student’s perspective, and it’s never ...

Birds can fly—at least, most of them can. Flightless birds like penguins and ostriches have evolved lifestyles that don't require flight. However, there's a lot that scientists don't know about how ...

Ever since the first humans saw birds gracefully soaring through the sky above their heads, we have been asking two questions: how do they do that, and how can we learn to do that? Centuries of ...

Most airplanes in the world have vertical tails or rudders to prevent Dutch roll instabilities, a combination of yawing and sideways motions with rolling that looks a bit like the movements of a ...