Tom Zoellner is a tenured Professor of English at Chapman University, the author of numerous distinguished works of non-fiction, and an editor-at-large of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Professor ...

The sight of birds soaring through the sky has inspired ... a team of researchers from Princeton University is exploring how feather-like flaps on aircraft wings could improve stability and ...

Whether they’re opening for takeoff, spreading wide for a lazy soar or flapping to brake for landing, bird wings make flying ...

A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...

When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird ...

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The newly hatched chicks had slowed feather development and some bare areas. However, within a few weeks, their feathers became the same as those of all other birds of their species ... chickens with ...

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If a threat arises — like an encroaching storm surge, an injured bird or a predator in the area — they escalate it to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources or the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

tube-like structures that are thought to have been present in certain dinosaur species during the Early Triassic, gradually evolving into the more complex feathers that we see in birds today.