A Delta flight out of Los Angeles was forced to return to the airport on Wednesday after a bird strike shortly after takeoff.

A new study using advanced fossil imaging reveals that ancient pterosaurs may have mastered flight almost instantly when they ...

Ancient flying reptiles called pterosaurs learned to fly while their brains were small, taking a very different path from ...

Ancient pterosaurs may have taken to the skies far earlier and more explosively than birds, evolving flight at their very ...

Pterosaurs acquired flight "in a burst at their origin," giving scientists new insights into the biological laws of flight ...

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For more than a hundred years, scientists believed flying reptiles called pterosaurs took to the air with birdlike brains.

Flight is a rare skill in the animal world. Among vertebrates, it evolved only three times: in bats, birds, and the long-extinct pterosaurs. Pterosaurs were the pioneers, taking to the skies more than ...

Christina Harvey uses wind tunnels at the UC Davis College of Engineering to study bird flight. Harvey is the recipient of a 2023 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering. (UC Davis photo) ...

People have been fascinated by bird flight for centuries, but exactly how birds can be so agile in the air remains mysterious. A new study, published Sept. 5 in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

Birds fly in a V formation to save energy. The bird in front creates lift for those behind. This teamwork makes long flights ...