The wonder of spring migration is playing out across much of the globe as millions of birds are shifting from wintering to breeding grounds. The annual cycle is a matter of survival for most ...

The mystery was, how did they turn up on all the southern continents, and why were they so large — these great, big flightless things ... was that this bird would carry off elephants," says ...

Researchers using custom-built GPS and accelerometer loggers attached to free-flying birds on migration ... It was previously not thought possible for birds to carry out such aerodynamic feats ...

Luciana Quiros Rojas Grade 3, Bent Flying is cool: Flying things are really cool. Owls can fly. Airplanes can fly. Birds can fly and jets can fly. Birds are flying animals. They make nests.

For a long time, the main problem was that the technology to measure things like a bird's position or vital signs was just too heavy to be put on the back of a flying animal. But the computer age ...

The ancient bird, dubbed Pelagornis sandersi, belonged to a family of now-extinct "toothed" birds. The discovery also shows that, for some ancient flying birds ... wind to carry them aloft ...

Migratory birds almost double their body weight during migration season to store fat, which they use as fuel while flying ... but it’s one of the main things people are interested in when ...