Stuttgart/Irvine – If a Tyrannosaurus Rex living 66 million years ago featured a similar leg structure as an ostrich running in the savanna today, then we can assume bird legs stood the test of time – ...

New research based on high-resolution x-ray movies reveals that despite having extremely underdeveloped muscles and wings, young birds acquire a mature flight stroke early in their development, ...

Scientists have built a bird-inspired robot with legs that can walk on the ground, hop over obstacles and jump into flight, an advance that may lead to the development of drones for complex terrains.

Young-Hui Chang can remember exactly when he realized how flamingos balance so effortlessly on one leg. He and a fellow biologist Lena Ting suspected that the pink birds might have features on their ...