Recent research delving into the intricate world of bird feathers has uncovered a fascinating discovery: a distinct set of feather rules governing flight capabilities. This breakthrough sheds light on ...

SapceShipTwo glides to a landing at the Mojave Air and Space Port May 1 after testing its feather system. Credit: Virgin Galactic WASHINGTON — Virgin Galactic said May 1 it successfully tested the ...

Flying birds molt their feathers when they are old and worn because they inhibit flight performance, and the molt strategy is typically a sequential molt. Molting is thought to be unorganized in the ...

WASHINGTON – WASHINGTON -- Recent fossil discoveries that showed feathers on some of the early flying animals, like the Archaeopteryx, created a bit of a flap in the archaeological world. And now ...

Archaeopteryx had a wing that was different from that of modern birds, and, as seen here, might have been a glider more than a powered flyer. Art by Carl Buell, courtesy of Nicholas Longrich How did ...

After establishing a stable glide, test pilot Pete Siebold raised the twin booms that make up the tail of SS2 into the feather position. On an actual suborbital space flight, this would be done while ...

What determines how big a flying bird can be? The answer, in part, is the time it takes for the creatures to replace their feathers, researchers have found. The study, published Tuesday in the journal ...

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 ...

* Here’s smoking-gun evidence that the feathered fiends who plague our grassy lawns and golf courses are also threatening the lives of airplane passengers departing La Guardia, Kennedy and Newark ...

The size of flighted birds is limited by the demands of keeping their feathers in good condition, and not simply by the effort needed to keep them up in the air. Birds' feathers can be damaged by the ...